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comforts). Parigraha means a load on the head; I never
experience a load of any kind. I do not even feel a load of my
body. Yet Dada lives a normal life; he eats, drinks, he goes to
weddings and funerals!
The only thing the Vitarags take into consideration is
whether a person is free of kashays or not. They do not look
at whether he is a tyaagi (one who renounces the worldly life)
or a grahasthi (one who lives a family life). Is there a kashay-
free state or have their kashay become weak in intensity? The
two to five percent of ascetics who have a mild or a good
disposition by nature have weak kashays.
Questioner: Is that considered a weakness of
understanding?
Dadashri: Not in their understanding; there is natural
goodness in them. Nevertheless the Lord still did not call them
kashay-free. ‘I am’ (ego) is kashay.
It is possible for kashays to weaken and decrease in
intensity by reading books of Krupadudev Shrimad Rajchandra.
But people have not realized this. What do we mean by mund
kashays? It is when kashays arise, one is aware of them but he
will not let anyone else know about them. It is a state such that
one is able to turn kashays around. Kashay is the nature of
worldly life and a kashay-free state is moks