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Aptavani-6 39 [5] Entanglements of the Worldly Life Questioner: In worldly interactions (vyavahar) when karmic tubers sprout, some sprout so heavily that it becomes very difficult to find a solution. Dadashri: These five sentences of ‘Ours,’ the Five Agnas, are such that they will eventually bring a solution/closure (samadhan) for you. Otherwise, there is no other way to find a solution/closure. That verily is why this world is a mysterious puzzle. “The world is the puzzle itself.” It can never be solved. The whole day one is entangled in the worldly life, so how can you progress spiritually? Puzzles will keep arising. They arise the moment you meet someone. Questioner: As one puzzle ends, another one is pois ed, waiting with its mouth open. Dadashri: Yes, this worldly life is a museum of puzzles. But if you realize who you really are, then your salvation is there! Otherwise, this puzzle is there for you to drown in. All the suffering really belongs to another entity, the non-Self (the relative- self). Realizing even this much is experiential knowledge (anubhav gnan). That experience is, ‘This suffering is not mine, it is of the non-Self’; even then there is salvation. The Amazing Web of the Doer Within There are all kinds of ‘k’s within you. ‘K’ means ‘karavnara,’ - the one that makes you do. The lobhak makes you greedy; mohak causes you to have moha, illusionary attachment; krodhak makes you angry; chetak makes you