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Aptavani-5
you stop hurting or harming anyone, when you stop having
negative thoughts about others, that is when your dependency
will break.
Questioner: Man has worries about all the necessities in
life, so then dependency is bound to come, is it not?
Dadashri: That dependency is different. There he has
entered in his own trap. Even if he does not want to get caught
in that trap; the traps will naturally arise. A mouse does not have
any dependency but if it sees food inside a trap it will, out of
greed, enter the trap. However, that dependency will go away
one day.
What is the ‘effect’ of worrying? It will lead to an animal
life (being born in the animal kingdom).
Questioner: What is the solution so that we do not
worry?
Dadashri: To turn around by reducing or completely
removing egoism. If a Gnani Purush is around, the egoism will
go away when he gives you the knowledge of the Self.
Questioner: What is helplessness (lachari)?
Dadashri: You will understand it if you were to ask a
helpless man. Or if you have a lot of debts, you have difficulty
in buying things and your wife complains about why you don’t
buy things for her; you feel tremendous dependency when you
do not have any money.
Lord Mahavir’s science is to take one from a state of
dependency (parvashta) into an independent state (swavash)
and then dependency will not affect him.
Questioner: The Self does not have dependency, does
it?
Dadashri: No, the Self does not have any dependency.