Aptavani-4
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At present, there is ninety-nine percent pains and misery
(dukh) and only one percent happiness (sukh). In Satyug (era
of unity in mind, speech and body) there was only happiness.
What Is the Fault of the Time Cycle?
Questioner: Do happiness and misery occur because of
time?
Dadashri: This is a samsaran marg (a path of evolution for
every living entity). All these living beings (jivas) are flowing along
in this stream. They are progressing. How can you measure
progress? When visible matter (dravya; effect of karma), location
(kshetra), time (kaad) and intent (bhaav) come together, the
action becomes visible. Time is evident and therefore, people give
more credence to time. How much of our own ‘doership’ can we
attribute to our coming into this Kaliyug (the current era of the time
cycle characterized by lack of unity in mind, speech and body);
dushamkaal (current time cycle characterized as a time of lack of
unity in people’s thought, speech and action; An era of moral and
spiritual decline)? What part did we play in all that?
The entire world is experiencing relentless, unlimited inner
turmoil and suffering. When someone says, “Chandubhai has no
sense at all,” it affects you inside. And you feel the inner burning
(antardaah). What is this inner burning (antardaah)? This is
when the parmanus (the subatomic particles) ignite and burn, and
when one parmanu is about to burn out, it ignites a second one,
which then ignites a third one, and so on... This carries on
constantly. They burn just like the electricity, and you have to
suffer it as pain. When excessive parmanus ignite, people will
say, “My jiva keeps burning (I am tormented).” How can you
bear all that? When one’s inner burning (antardaah) goes away,
the drum beat of liberation will sound.
Internal Happiness – External Happiness
Today’s worldly science has become ‘out of balance’. It