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the Self. All of us have to face circumstances; we should have
preference for circumstances that help us progress towards the
Self, we should not have preference for circumstances that help
us in the relative world. Worldly people make two distinctions
in all circumstances, a profitable (beneficial) circumstance or a
circumstance of loss (non-beneficial circumstance). But we
know that profit and loss is not in our control. The circumstance
that brings us satsang is the circumstance that is worth choosing.
All other circumstances are merely just that, circumstances. And
the biggest circumstance of all, the one that always sleeps with
you at night and stays with you during the day, the circumstance
of the mind, speech and body are the very circumstances that
has brought you suffering, so what other circumstances will bring
you happiness? This circumstance of the mind, speech and body
is not likely to leave you and there you have to do sambhave
nikal; you have to deal with it, with equanimity.
It is like this, the more difficult the circumstance, the more
this Gnan will flourish. Nevertheless one does not have to go out
looking for difficult circumstances either; just deal with them as
they come, with equanimity.
Bitter circumstances can be made sweet
Dadashri : How is your mother’s health?
Questioner : Ordinarily her health is good but yesterday
she fell in the bathroom; she is getting old now.
Dadashri : The rule of circumstances is that one weak
circumstance will pull together many other weak circumstances
and one strong circumstance will pull together many other strong
circumstances. Old age is a circumstance of weakness that is
why one meets with other circumstances of weakness. To the
one who is weak and feeble will come circumstances of
weakness. We have no choice but somehow deal with
circumstances in any way that we can. People of this world will