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ease. He will get irritated even if you ask him a question. Does that suit him? The Lord has told us to take it easy. Do you think the vitarag Lords were like that? These people move so fast that within no time they are nowhere to be seen! Do you think that Lord Mahavir used to walk this way? He would walk slowly, regally and in great ease. When you become restless from within then you become restless externally. Hyperactivity and agitation on the inside will also become hyperactivity and agitation on the outside. Then he will see everything else moving; even the trees!
These religious heads( auliyas) do not have such restlessness and hyperactivity. They are laid back and relaxed. If we say,“ Is the sky going to fall?” He will reply,“ No sir, it will not fall.” Whereas these people here maintain,“ I have done it, and I will have to suffer.” Hence, what happens when the sky falls( a calamity occurs)? The right understanding that has become wrong is the reason why bitter fruits have come about, otherwise why would the world be this way?
A hyperactive person( with both inner and outer hyperactivity) after attaining Gnan will not be able to remain in shuddha upayog( awareness as the Self). Even if you were to‘ give’ such a person shuddha upayog, it will not stay with him because he is hyperactive. When you all eat, drink; go out, you do it with upayog; with awareness. Whereas the hyperactive person keeps thinking,“ My awareness( shuddha upayog) will definitely go away in doing all these mundane things.” No the shuddha upayog remain in all activities. Whether the tea is strong or not, sweet or not, our awareness remains for sure.
The word‘ pramaad’ has killed spirituality. They have not understood the word pramaad at all. Even if he wakes up at four in the morning and does all his kriyas( spiritual rituals), if we ask Lord Mahavir, the Lord would say,“ These are all pramaadi; completely pramaadi( spiritually apathetic). Not even a fraction of their spiritual sloth is gone.”