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because ‘we’ are meddlesome and that is why ‘we’ say, “Sir,
you will fall into the hole that lies ahead.” The vitarags tell ‘us’,
“Why do you worry about him?” But ‘we’ feel, ‘When will this
poor man come out of the hole once he falls in it?’ All along it
has been our inner intent and desire that no one falls (spiritually)
and that everyone becomes free from the tangles of the worldly
life. ‘We’ have found the path to moksha and ‘we’ will take you
along. ‘We’ will sit with you for half an hour, but ‘we’ will take
you back (home; the Self) with ‘us’.
The Lord has said, “The whole world is on the path to
liberation.” So no one is going the wrong way, but what happens
if you are on your way to New York from Washington and you
end up in Miami? You arrive at the station and ask someone
where you are. They tell you, you are in Miami. You ask them
when the train will arrive at New York and they tell you that
New York is in the opposite direction. This is how it is for
people who are on the wrong path to moksha. The path of
liberation is not like this. The path of liberation is not laden with
physical suffering and misery (kasht). There is no moksha where
there is kasht (subjecting body to penance) and where there is
liberation, there is no kasht. The Lord considers kasht a form of
obstinacy (hathagraha). What do the renunciants and ascetics
on the path of liberation today claim? They say, “The Lord too
endured physical suffering!” You fools! Why do you disgrace the
Lord in this way? How can the Lord be so? Even this ‘Dada’
does not subject his body to any punishment so why would
Lord Mahavir do so? Gnanis never subject themselves to
austerities (kasht). People say that the Lord renounced the
world. You fools! He renounced the world at the age of 30
years after he had a child and he did so without hurting his wife
and children. When the Lord went to his elder brother for
permission, his brother told him to wait for two years. The Lord
waited for two years and then, with the consent of his wife, he
renounced the worldly life. The Lord did not have to renounce