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intellect and I am telling you not to get trapped; not to become
attached to it. You may eat, drink and enjoy but do not get
trapped and yet people get attached. Do not get attached. Enjoy
it and go to sleep!
What is this world? It is the largest museum! It is a
museum just like the one we have in Baroda. What are the rules
when you enter a museum with your ticket? The conditions are
‘Go in, take your time and observe; and enjoy as much and for
as long as you want to. Eat and drink as much as you want to,
if and when you want. You can enjoy doing all that in the
museum. But you cannot take anything with you when you leave.
If you do, you will be guilty and incur a liability.’ Then why
would you want to mess with anything once you enter in? Just
enjoy the different collections in the museum. You cannot take
anything with you when you leave. This world is a museum that
you have entered. There is a problem only if you touch things or
try to take things out of it. Then one will say, ‘Sir, the problem
is only when I carry it out physically, is it not?’ No, the law says,
you cannot carry it out even in your mind and not with your
speech either. Do not take anything out. Yet, you are free to
enjoy it all. Is there anything wrong with this law?
Questioner: That is true.
Dadashri: Now is it not possible to leave the world in
this same way? But people keep taking things, some even put
things in their pockets and walk out but then they get caught
there, in the next life. And people take many things in their mind,
‘Ah! There is no one like the girl I saw,’ and she will say, ‘I
have never seen anyone like him in my entire life.’ Hey, you!!
What are you going to do with them now?
Questioner: But this ‘museum’ is such that it gives rise to
all kinds of covetousness (lalacha).
Dadashri: Museums are always like that. But when the
law is such that you cannot take anything with you, then what?