Aptavani-6
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helped you a lot. You are alive because of pratikraman. Your
home is limited to just this much. I have a home of so many
people. However, there is no suspicion towards anyone.
Who Joins You in the Funeral Pyre?
Questioner: So does that mean that I should not have
the belief that, ‘Whatever I say is correct’?
Dadashri: Even if it is the truth, how does it concern ‘us,
the Self’? What I am saying is that one has to go alone on his
funeral pyre, does he not? So why carry the burden of all this
needless strife?
“It went on before you were born and will go on after you die.
Never will worldly interactions end; relative is the worldly life…”
“Janma pahela chalto ney mooa pachhi chalshey.
Atake na koi di vyavahar re, sapeksha sansar re…”
- Navneet
One is caught up in the same old misery for infinite lives.
The wife and children are of this life, but one has had wife and
children in every past life. He has done nothing but created
attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh) and bound karma. There
is no trace of those relations now! It is karma that keeps giving
the fruits. Sometimes it gives light and sometimes it gives darkness.
Sometimes it gives a beating and sometimes it showers flowers.
Can any relations be in this?
This has been going on since time immemorial. Who are
we to ‘run’ all this? All we have to ‘see’ is how we can become
free from our karma. ‘We’ the enlightened ones’ have nothing
to do with the children. It is nothing but unnecessary burden.
Everyone is subject to his karma. If there were such a thing as
a true relationship, then everyone in the home would make a
decision not to fight. But within an hour or two, they start fighting.
This is because it is not under anyone’s control, for sure! It is