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your worldly interactions are concerned, you will even have to
tell your mother, ‘Mom, I do not like being away from you.’
Even your mother will say, ‘Son, I do not like it without
you,’ and the one within (You) know that it is a relation that will
end or is prone to end (chyuta). This entire worldly life is like
a drama. From within You know that, ‘I am pure Soul—
Shuddhatma, and this drama of the worldly life has to be played
out in the name of ‘Chandulal.’ There is no attachment-abhorrence
(raag-dwesh) in this drama. In a drama, people quarrel and
fight but there is no raag-dwesh in it. This drama that is currently
taking place has already been previously rehearsed in the past
life. That is why ‘we’ say everything is vyavasthit; otherwise,
would a person not have changed everything around?
In this world, instead of playing his part like he is in a
drama, if a man has an important position at his job, at his work
he will be obstinate (aadayee) but at home he will behave in
front of his wife. When you visit him at home he will say, ‘Come
on in and sit down,’ but when he is at work, he will not even
look at you. ‘Hey, you! What is it about the chair you sit on at
work that bothers you?’ Does it make you arrogant? He will go
around thinking, ‘I am this… I am that.’ Hey, man! What is so
mighty about you? At home, your wife bullies you!
Should you not understand something at least? There is a
mutual relationship with everyone that you interact with. What is
the world? It is mutual existence. Regardless of whom you are
interacting with, whether it is a collector or a servant, you should
maintain a helping and obliging nature; there should be an intent
mutuality.
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