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changing. So if in the past life, we were at the tenth milestone,
in this lifetime, we come to the eleventh milestone. Now on the
tenth milestone, there were wonderful gardens and wonderful
people, and having seen all that, when we get to the eleventh
milestone, we encounter desert. So you think to yourself, ‘How
on earth can I live like this?’ You recall all that you had seen at
the tenth milestone. You are in a predicament because of your
internal conflict. All you keep feeling is, ‘this is terrible, this is
terrible’. The knowledge of today is what is bothering you within.
Is that not where all the conflict stems from? Until you attain
Atmagnan (Self-realization), the conflict will continually go on
and on.
So the world will remain the way it is forever. And from
it, as a rule, the living beings will constantly be going to final
liberation (moksha).
Ultimately the Solution Will Come Through
the Gnani
Questioner: Once a living entity (jiva) comes into a state
where it has an identity (vyavahar rashi) and enters life in the
world, is it bound to go to final liberation (moksha)? So even
the time would have been decided, that after so many births, it
will go to final liberation? Would the timing of going to final
liberation be already determined?
Dadashri: The living entity (jiva) is ready to go to final
liberation (moksha) from the time it enters into the named state
(vyavahar rashi).
Questioner: But will its time be decided?
Dadashri: The time is indeed decided, but after coming
into the human life-form, provided one does not do egoism
(ahamkar), then the time is definite. If he does egoism, he again
falls from there, and then there is no telling what happens from
there on. Once he turns backward into egoism (ahamkar), there