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you; for that length of time, you will have to suffer a beating.
Therefore, the circumstance is by nature, transient (viyogi); with
this support, and with patience, you must move on.
Did Gajasukumar not, have his head covered with a clay
turban (pot), by his father-in-law? He had filled the pot with
burning coal. At that moment, Gajasukumar understood that he
was encountering this saiyog (circumstance), in which his father-
in-law had bound – what was according to his belief – a turban
for moksha, filled with burning coal, over his head.
Now, Lord Neminath (The 22 nd Tirthankar), had told
Gajasukumar, ‘This is Your nature and form (swaroop), and
these circumstances (saiyogo), are not Yours. ‘You’ are the
Knower (Gnata) of the circumstances. Circumstances are all
something to be known (gneya).’ So he was, as the Self, able
to remain the Knower, amidst those circumstances (gneya). Since
he had become the Knower, he remained separate in that
circumstance and he even attained final liberation. Otherwise, in
spite of all their lamentations and grief (kalpant), people die
anyway! If you are about to die, and you die lamenting, you will
have to suffer the consequences of that lamentation (kalpant -
endless grief).
Regularity After Self-Realization
Questioner: Can we not say that religion (dharma) is the
same as a child learning his numbers, beginning with number
one, and progresses step by step in order (kramsar)?
Dadashri: It is all just like that in religion (dharma). But
as far as dharma goes, it all changes after one enters the human
life. It all becomes distorted. Here from human life one either
goes on to a lower life-form, or a higher life-form.
Questioner: So, after coming into the human life, there is
no more order (kram)?
Dadashri: No. But after Atmagnan (Self-realization) it