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one who is aware, sleep? He knows that there is a snake there,
so what can we do about that?
Therefore, what do the scriptures say? ‘You had the
knowledge of the snake entering your home and now you will
be free only when you attain the knowledge of the snake leaving
your home.’ One will continue to be suspicious if he is not aware
of the snake leaving and he will not be able to fall asleep. He
will toss and turn whole nightlong. He will continue to wonder,
‘What if the snake comes here?’ What is the snake going to do?
What is it going to take out of your pocket?
Questioner: What can it do with things in the pocket?
Dadashri: Then what is it going to do?
Questioner: It will bite.
Dadashri: For what? Will it be a lawful bite or an
unlawful one? There is nothing in this world that is happening
that is unlawful, not even for a moment. Everything that happens,
happens within the laws of nature. So do not be mistaken.
Whatever happens, or has happened, was within the dictates
of nature’s law. What does our Gnan say? It says, ‘Forget
about the snake entering the house; it is vyavasthit. Why don’t
you go to sleep?’ Our Gnan will help him sleep without any
suspicions.
‘We’ have slept in many such situations because most of
‘our’ business was in the jungles. A snake would be sleeping
where I could see it. When ‘we’ woke up in the morning, ‘we’
would see the snake sleeping. The snake would sleep and so
would ‘we’. Where else could that poor snake go in the jungle?
Wherever it found a place to sleep, that place would be his. We
can at least go to our in-laws for a couple of days but the snake
has no in-laws to go to!
That is why ‘we’ have said ‘vyavasthit’. There is
‘exactness’. Not a grain worth of change can be made.