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Aptavani-5
One has been living with a wrong belief. He becomes a
father and believes himself to be a father, but he would soon find
out how many days his ‘fatherhood’ would last if he were to
scold his son for just a couple of hours! He would be stunned!
Truly if there were such a state of fatherhood, there would be
no separation from children.
Repentance for Sins
Questioner: If we go to the temple every Sunday and
confess to all our wrong doings (demerit karmas) to God, will
we be forgiven?
Dadashri: If that were possible then no one would fall
sick, would they? Then there would be no misery (dukh) at all,
would there? But there is endless misery. The reason to ask for
forgiveness is to destroy the root of your demerit karmas
(paap), so that they do not sprout again, but you will still have
to suffer the effect; the fruit, won’t you?
Questioner: Some roots may sprout again.
Dadashri: They may sprout again if they were not
destroyed completely. But regardless of whether the root has
been destroyed or not, the fruits of past karmas will still have to
be suffered. Even the enlightened Lords have to suffer them.
Lord Krishna too was shot with an arrow in the foot. There is
no way out of that. I too have to suffer them.
Asking for forgiveness is part of every religion: Christianity,
Hinduism, Islam, etc., but their methods are different.
Questioner: But no person can have all the four different
types of happiness the Lord has given, surely?
Dadashri: This is not happiness at all. It is all imagination.
It is not real happiness.
Questioner: How is one to understand what real
happiness is and what is not, without experiencing it?