How can anyone create a wedge in our unity? Those who
do are plotters with deceitful gossip. How can they be allowed
to interfere? How can one afford to be immature and allow
himself to be instigated by others?
One should always do the ‘welding’ (patching up)
whenever a wedge is created with anyone. It is considered a
great quality of virtue to do the ‘welding’ for others, even if there
is suffering and difficulty on the part of the one doing the
welding.
In these times, the one who does the welding i.e. unifies
others, will suffer. After the welding, the two estranged parties
will unite and the welder will be at a loss! After this kind of
suffering the welder backs off. However, the one who wants to
improve for the Self should weld in spite of the suffering!
If one is not comfortable in doing the welding, he should
maintain the intention in his mind of, ‘I want to do the welding’
but he should not have the negative intention of, ‘It is better if
they are separated.’
Those who break up relationships are found everywhere
but those who unite people are rarely to be found.
4. My-ness (mamata): intense insatiable greed (lalacha)
While life is short, how can a single minute be wasted?
You should pass through this world without any ‘dirt’ touching
you. Where there are no expectations of any kind at all, no
blemish of any kind at all, where there is complete purity, there
is the status of the Gnani! The Gnani Purush does not have any
attachment even for his body. The Gnani Purush is without ego
or ‘my-ness’.
Mamata (my-ness) means ‘mine’ and as a result of this
my-ness, ‘I’ has continued to exist. The span of my-ness can
expand from ‘my body’ to ‘my wife, my house, my town, my
country, my world.’ Etc.
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