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save me.” You fool, the doctor’s mother is dead, his father is
dead; he could not even save them, so how is he going to save
you? If the doctor’s father has phlegm stuck in his throat, you
would say to him, “You have done so many surgeries on
people’s stomachs to remove tumors, so why don’t you just
remove this phlegm clot?” And he would reply, “No, if I did that,
it will kill him.” They make idle claims such as, “I saved that
patient…” You louts! You have every right to say that, if you are
never going to die! First, put an end to your funeral pyre
(nanami)! Therefore, understand all this.
How Much Purusharth in Digesting Food?
Take this snack for instance that is in front of us. Tell me
how much purusharth is needed to eat it? If you need
purusharth for eating, then that purusharth and the worldly
purusharth (routine activities) are the same. Do you have to do
any purusharth when you eat?
Questioner: No.
Dadashri: The fact is that, for eating you have to do
naimitik purusharth (evidence-based effort); you have to
move your hands and your mouth. The teeth will chew the
food nicely and the tongue will also do its job, as long as you
do not interfere. But you interfere in it by saying, “I am doing
the purusharth of eating.” Now if the tongue tried to do the
purusharth of eating, it would get crushed many a time,
between the thirty-two teeth. But the tongue does not interfere,
and it does not say, “I am doing the purusharth.” During
meals, provided that one does not attempt to do purusharth
in the ‘mill’ (chewing complex), the activity of eating can
happen naturally and nicely. All you have to do is to “know”
and “see”. Everything will happen naturally. In the evening,
don’t you go to sleep after you have eaten some savory
cake (handvo)? So in order to digest it, what purusharth do
you do?