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Aptavani-2
Nature of worldly life : nature of vairagya
(dispassion)
Sansar (the worldly life) is nothing but a betrayal. In it, no
one is related to you. If a person were to clearly understand the
terrible misery of worldly life, he would have an intense desire
for liberation. This terrible misery of the world is a counter
weight for liberation. One feels the intense desire for liberation
as misery increases.
Today, a person may find the world fearfully miserable
and yet because of the illusion he continues to suffer its repeated
blunt beating. He continues to put up with the beatings saying,
‘Things will improve tomorrow’, but does brass ever turn into
gold? No, it will never turn to gold. That is why it is important
to understand its horrible misery for once and for all. As it is,
one is under a false belief that he can derive happiness from the
world; ‘I will be happy if I do this’. Alas! Even here, one is
subject to a beating.
If the Gnani Purush were to merely describe the terrible
misery of this world, one will definitely begin to question, ‘Is the
world so terrible? There is no way to escape from it. We must
solve it once and for all.’ You can become free from the worldly
entanglements through submission. ‘Yes sir. Yes, sir’ is what you
have to do in order to disentangle yourself. This world is such
that it calls for settling all matters with equanimity.
This is a very profound fact that ‘We’ are telling you. The
world perpetuates and remains in existence because of all other
superficial talks.
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