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in this life. Only previously made arrangements will bear fruits in
this life. Otherwise, it is not possible to bring the mind under
control. The mind cannot be tied down with anything. Just as
you need a vessel to contain and confine water, you need Gnan
to confine the mind. The mind will only yield to a Gnani Purush.
It is not to be fractured; it has to be dissolved. The mind is a
‘boat’ in the ‘ocean of life’; you can only cross the ocean of life
and reach ashore in this boat. The whole world is swimming in
the ocean of life. They swim a little but they sink, again they
swim and sink and come up also and that is why they get tired.
Everyone has the desire to reach the shore in a boat, but
because they do not have the right understanding, they try to
destroy this boat of the mind. We need the mind; the mind is
gneya (that to be known) and you are gnata-drashta (the
knower and the seer) of it. The mind is a film; what will you
watch if there is no film? The mind is a film but because you do
not know this, you become engrossed with it and say, “I have
good thoughts.” And you do not like it when you have bad
thoughts. Good thoughts sow seeds of attachment (raag) and
bad thoughts sow seeds of abhorrence (dwesh). This is how the
worldly life perpetuates. But when you meet a Gnani Purush and
he bestows upon you the divine vision (divyachakshu) which
will give you awareness of the Self, then you will begin to
recognize the tubers of the mind and they will dissolve as you
continue to see them.
Questioner : I have no interest left in the worldly life. I
do not like it anywhere, what should I do?
Dadashri : When a person has a fever for several days,
he does not feel like eating anything. He will even give it to you
in writing, “I do not like eating anything”, but is he going to feel
this way forever? No! He will tear his note and say he was sick
at the time he wrote it, but now he is fine. The mind changes
every moment. It will become interested again. Under certain
conditions, people feel they do not like the worldly life; certain