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Aptavani-5
Kashay (anger, pride, deceit and greed) should not
occur. Do you experience any kashay?
Questioner: Yes, I do.
Dadashri: Do you like kashay?
Questioner: I do not like them but they do occur.
Dadashri: Kashay verily is pain and unhappiness (dukh).
The whole world is in kashay. They do not like kashays but
they are entrapped by them. Everyone is under the control of
kashays, so what can the poor people do? They want so much
not to get angry and yet inevitably they get angry.
What kind of happiness do you want, temporary or
permanent?
Questioner: Everyone wants permanent happiness.
Dadashri: And yet people do not get permanent
happiness. What is the reason for this?
Questioner: Such are our karmas, what else could it be?
Dadashri: Whatever the karmas may be, you have not
found anyone who can show you or give you permanent
happiness. If you ask the one who is experiencing such
happiness to show you how you too can attain it, then your
work will be done. But you have not found anyone like that. All
whom you have met were themselves unhappy. Consequently
neither their unhappiness nor yours has gone.
Only the Gnani Purush is in permanent happiness;
permanent bliss. He remains in moksha. Your problem will get
solved when you go to Him otherwise you will have to keep
on wandering from one life to another. How can happiness
ever remain in this era of the time cycle? How can it remain
without knowledge of the Self? Ignorance of the Self is itself
pain.