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Aptavani-4
Some of it comes from what they hear. Some of it comes from
reading books. All that is ‘relative’ gnan. When there is
influence of ‘relative’ knowledge it is considered ‘relative’
purusharth. Here, if it is influenced by real Gnan, then it is
considered ‘real’ purusharth; nevertheless, people do make
some purusharth in the world. It has not become utterly
fruitless!
You can at least find maybe two or three out of a
thousand who do such a purusharth! But they cannot
understand completely whether they should call it prarabdha or
purusharth! For them, the purusharth occurs by itself. One
has no concept about the ‘grade’ of that, and what ‘grade’ ‘this’
is. All that people know of prarabdha and purusharth is: “‘I
have to go at eleven o’clock’. ‘How did I get late?’ ‘Why did
you spill the soup?’ And ‘he did this’ and ‘he did that’.” Alas,
the spilling of the soup is considered a circumstance. From this,
there are only two separate things that occur in the worldly life:
saiyog (the coming together of circumstances) and viyog (the
dissipation of the circumstances). However many circumstances
there are, that many will definitely dissipate. And whatever the
saiyog, to maintain equanimity in it, is the purusharth. It is not
considered purusharth when someone showers you with
flowers, and your eg