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create new accounts)? There is nothing to give and nothing to
take. All you need is a little food for your sustenance, so why
take the weight of the world on your shoulders? And when you
fall sick, no one will come to ask after you. You will have to take
care of yourself. Did you not know from the start that all these
relationships are temporary? We can do everything for them if
they were real, but these are all temporary and relative
relationships and there is no telling when they will fracture. If
relationships were real, then if a father dies, the son too would
die with him. Do you think anyone in the city of Mumbai dies
this way? No, no one does. So should you not realize from the
beginning that all these relationships are relative? Furthermore,
you should not be rigid in these relationships; you could afford
to do so in a real relationship. But what is the point of hanging
on to relationships that may break anytime? So know from the
start that all this is relative, and concentrate on your own
accounts.
That which is temporary, is like clothes. One changes
clothes daily and those ‘clothe’ (body) are changed at the end
of sixty or seventy years. You suffer because you believe you
are the clothes. You have not attained the knowledge of the Self
and that is why you have wandered into territories that are not
your own. You conduct your worldly life under the belief of ‘I
am Chandulal’, and when you come to the final destination,
Chandulal will be left behind and you will have to move on but
along with you will come, all the problems you created in this life
as Chandulal. The path to attain the Self is extremely rare
indeed.
In this worldly life, suffering begins as a blast within at the
most unexpected moment. There is no peace of mind and yet
they live in flats worth hundreds of thousands of rupees. It is a
wonder in itself how these poor creatures manage to live.
However, what else can they do? Should they jump into the
ocean? That too is against the law! They have no choice but