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any note of it. ‘We’ would go crazy if I were to make any note
at all. ‘We’ got rid of the notebook altogether long ago!
Vitarag and yet meddlesome
Questioner: Dada, is there any nishkaran karuna
(expectation-free compassion; compassion of the Gnani Purush
for us that has no ‘personal gain’ agenda behind it) in the eyes
of the vitarag?
Dadashri: Yes, just that! What else? This is nothing but
compassion without expectation (ultimate compassion)! Our
vision is only on his Self (Soul) and not his non-Self complex
(pudgal). Nevertheless, ‘we’ will preserve and promote a
worldly relationship with him because he is beneficial to the
satsang and therefore ‘we’ would say, ‘welcome, please.’ If
there are certain people who are beneficial for others, ‘we’ will
make it a point to welcome them and encourage them. That
worldly dealing has to be taken care of and nurtured and ‘we’
would do that. The tirthankara Lords however, would not do
such things. They do not meddle whatsoever, do they? And this
is nothing but meddling (khatpat) on ‘our’ part.
Questioner: It is because the meddling part for the
world’s salvation that still remains in you, that we are able to
come to you here.
Dadashri: Yes, that is it. That is why ‘we’ have halted
‘our’ progress towards final liberation. May others attain the
salvation that ‘we’ have acquired and that is why ‘we’ meddle;
‘we’ meddle only for this reason. Everything ‘we’ do is simply
so that people too may be blessed. People get to see vitaragata
(the detached state) here.
Questioner: So far you mentioned obstinacy in your
worldly interaction (vyavahar), where you became upset and
non-communicative (risavu) over milk, but what kind of
obstinacy is there on the path of moksha?