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make such a fuss. They would have forgotten even if you had
asked them to wake you. Is there a need for you to make a fuss,
when your waking up late is prarabdha itself? Now what is the
purusharth that you need to do? Your decision that you must
get up early is the purusharth. And if in case, your tea comes
without any sugar, decide to yourself that it is because of your
prarabdha that you got sugarless tea. No one should be
blamed. So request for some sugar or else decide to yourself
that you do not want to ask for it at all. Do one of the two.
The bhaav (inner intent) that you do is the purusharth;
however, it is considered a relative purusharth. What can one
call ‘real’ purusharth? It is the paarinamic bhaav (intent as or
of the Self) that arises, that is called ‘real’ purusharth. All day
long, these people go around doing their samayik, pratikraman,
japa, tapa, dhyan, and rituals, etc., and yet it is all done in their
sleep (in the state of ignorance of the Self). You cannot call that
purusharth. Should the one doing purusharth be awake or
asleep?
Questioner: Awake.
Dadashri: The world considers prarabdha as purusharth.
There are probably just a few people who are awake. They are
the ones who know and understand that, ‘It must be this way.’
The remainder, however, have no clue about the difference
between prarabdha and purusharth.
Questioner: Is this all not a mistake?
Dadashri: Actually, it is not a mistake. And why not?
That is what I am going to explain to you. The differentiation
between prarabdha and purusharth that people have formerly
made, is correct up to the point, where there is unity of mind,
speech and body. And that is that they would speak what was
on their minds and they would act that way too. But in this era
of the current time cycle, that unity of the mind, body and