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becomes speechless and awed. The other person is your own
reflection.
Who are you amidst the circumstances ?
If you have the punya, whatever circumstances you have
to face, will all help you. And if your paap is in effect, all
circumstances will be disagreeable and if they unfold one after
the other they will make you suffer before they leave! Some say,
“My circumstances are not good.” This is a statement of a
Gnani; however who are you in this and what is all this about?
Everything else is circumstances. So then who are you?
At least try to find this out!
When a person falls sick and gets better, healing is a
circumstance and if he becomes sicker, that too is a circumstance.
Even the medicine, which is supposed to heal, will make him
sicker if he has to face a circumstance that induces more
sickness. Along with just one weak circumstance there will
unfold many other such circumstances. If a circumstance of
drought comes along, many cattle will die as a result. One
circumstance of weakness will be followed by more circumstances
of weakness. And if these are all circumstances, then who are
you?
Circumstances are constantly undergoing changes. Let me
give you an example of this. You are going out at around five
o’clock in the evening. There are rain clouds in the sky. A little
later you see a rainbow amidst the clouds. Who made the
rainbow? Why was it not there earlier? It manifested because of
the rain clouds and also because of the sun. All circumstances
come together in this way, and the rainbow is visible from only
certain places.
There are only two things: the Soul and circumstances.
But the soul has become entangled with circumstances. To
become entangled is not an inherent characteristic of the Soul,