Aptavani-5
47
Questioner: So despite the neighbor’s suffering, You
(the Self) are not suffering?
Dadashri: There is no pain at all due to someone else’s
pain. Pain is not the nature (swabhav) of the Self; on the
contrary, by Its ‘touch’ the other person is filled with bliss!
Spiritual Awareness in the World
Questioner: Since the last five years, there is increase in
people’s spiritual progress. What does this imply?
Dadashri: It shows that spiritual tendencies were
completely gone and now they appear to be increasing. This is
befitting according to the current times. The other thing is that
pain and suffering is going to increase so much so that it will
become difficult for people to come out of it. Then dispassion
(vairagya) will arise in the people. Otherwise people are not
likely to change their ways, are they?
Questioner: Then will that be considered a Satyug (era
of the time cycle characterized by unity in thoughts, speech and
actions)?
Dadashri: People can call it whatever ‘yuga’ (era) they
want but there is going to be a change. Satyug is gone; it will
not come again. In the Kaliyug (the current era of the time cycle
characterized by lack of unity in thoughts, speech and actions)
such beautiful thoughts, which have never been experienced, will
be there!
Today the human intellect has developed in such a way
that it has never happened in the last million years. It is becoming
viparit (misguided); nevertheless it is highly developed and it
will not take long for it to become samyak (well-guided),
leading to the right path. Previously the intellect was not
developed.
Questioner: That is why, in the past time cycles, one had