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Questioner: And that is not easy.
Dadashri: If it was easy then everyone would have done
it. It is itself difficult, it is not easy. It is extremely difficult. Because
it is so difficult, just to understand this much, so many scriptures
have been written. But that in itself is very difficult.
There are certain things that you like and sometimes things
you do not. ‘One’ (the Self) comes across agreeable
circumstances, and disagreeable circumstances. When a likeable
circumstance (saiyog) comes along, the Vitarag says: that nothing
is worth liking, nor is it worth disliking, You (the Self) should
remain free from this. That is because there is no such thing to
not like. Besides, You bind yourself when you consider something
to be good. When you call something good, you will be calling
something else bad. Since you say one thing is good, you will
undoubtedly say the other thing is bad.
So what does the Vitarag (one without attachment and
abhorrence) say? That it is all circumstances (saiyogo). And that
it is you, who have created the differences; that this circumstance
(saiyog) is good, and that circumstance is bad. All that the
Vitarags have said about circumstances is that they are all
circumstances. And moreover, that the nature of these
circumstances is that they dissipate (viyogi); therefore, do not
allow any circumstance to become likable to you, so that you do
not have to push away any circumstance that you may not like.
If you try to push it away, then you forgo your final liberation
(moksha). If any disagreeable circumstance (saiyog) should come
along, and you push that circumstance away, you will again get
caught up in the entanglement. Therefore, instead of pushing the
circumstance away, end it with intent of equanimity (samata
bhaav). Circumstances by their own nature, are transient
(viyogi). The circumstance will disperse on its own, so you do
not have to become fretful. And in spite of that, if you are
confronted with circumstances you dislike, and you try to avoid
them by going the wrong way, even then, time will not spare