Aptavani-9
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Questioner: But people’s mamata is spread out is it
not?
Dadashri: But at whose expense are they extending it?
Everyone has desires, do they not? How much land does a
farmer desire? And there is a limit on the amount of available
land, is there not? People’s desire for land is endless. One
person will say, ‘I want five-hundred acres.’ Another will say, ‘I
want one hundred acres,’ and a third person will say, ‘I want
hundred acres.’ How can this be possible? People suffer
miserably in the process but achieve nothing.
Remove mamata through understanding
One man had a beautiful bungalow. He started to cry
when talks about selling it came up. He said, ‘Do not sell this
bungalow, no matter what.’ He had to sell it anyway because of
financial problems. After the transfer of papers, the bungalow
burnt down. Someone asked him, ‘Hey did your bungalow burn
down?’ He replied, ‘What do I have to do with it?’ The young
man replied, ‘But that was your bungalow!’ so the older man
says, ‘But I had sold it.’ Now it was such a wonderful bungalow
when he lived in it, so why did his mamata towards it go away
a day later?
Questioner: Because he sold it.
Dadashri: But how can his mamata go away?
Questioner: His mamata went away because he let go
of it.
Dadashri: He did not let go of it but he was forced to
let go, was he not? On the contrary, when the bungalow burnt
down, he was relieved. So, did his ‘my-ness’ not go away on
the same day when he sold his property? And what did he get
in return? Papers? Will one’s ‘my-ness’ go away with papers?
Yes it will; did you not see that? And will papers go away or
not? Yes, they will too. So if a mere paper can remove the