Aptavani-4
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Dadashri: If they did not have to suffer the pain in spite
of their good karma, where would they go? Everyone has to
suffer his or her pain. The experience can be pleasant (shata)
or it can be unpleasant (ashata). When one’s daughter gets
married, one has experience of pleasure (shata-vedaniya), but
after the marriage, when the son-in-law comes to ask for money,
it gives rise to unpleasant experience (ashata-vedaniya). All the
external experiences of pleasure or pain are in the control of
vyavasthit, and the inner happiness that prevails is the
purusharth.
Kramic Path Is Dependent on Illusory
Purusharth
What is prarabdha? It is not in our hands (satta). It is
under the control of another, and yet if we believe that it is in our
control, that is our purusharth. “I did this, I did that”. Although
you are not the one doing it, you claim that you are. This is your
misconception which is a purusharth. It is called an illusory
effort (bhrant purusharth). And from the moment the awareness
that, ‘I am not the doer’ arises, the illusory effort (bhrant
purusharth) stops and the purusharth towards moksha
begins.
Questioner: Will the feeling of “I am not the ‘doer’”
occur only if it is in the destiny?
Dadashri: It will only occur if it is in the destiny.
However, it will not work just by saying that it is all in the
destiny. After attaining the Atma (the Self), the real purusharth
begins. If not, there is always the illusory effort! There is the
illusory effort of the illusion (that ‘I am Chandubhai’), and there
is the real purusharth of Gnan (that ‘I am pure Soul’). Both
continue to occur. The purusharth of Gnan will take You to
moksha, and the purusharth of the illusion will make you
wander around interminably in the worldly life.