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Aptavani-9
Lord says, ‘Once you fulfill your intense greed (lalacha), come
take my shelter. Then, you and I are one.’ But people have
intense unsatisfied greed for so many things that their wanderings
never cease.
A person can attain liberation on his own if he did not
harbor any intense greed (lalacha). He can discover liberation
if he is not bound by his lalacha. But people keep wandering
(caught up in the life-death cycle) as a result of their intense
greed and they suffer tremendously in the process.
I asked one man who had come here, ‘Do you have any
intense greed (lalacha)?’ he replied, ‘I do not harbor any greed
whatsoever!’ I told him, ‘That is a great adjustment.’ The one
who has never had intense greed can reach the Self.
One loses all sense in intense inner greed
(lalacha)
Questioner: Is there just one kind of lalacha or are
there many?
Dadashri: There is no problem if there were just one
kind. Then it is called greed of one kind.
Questioner: But the intense greed you are talking about
is that of one kind?
Dadashri: No there are all kinds of intense greed
(lalacha). People want to extract happiness from wherever they
can.
Questioner: Is it an illusionary happiness?
Dadashri: Yes, that is it. What else? There is no limit to
it. It is fine if there is lalacha for only sex. Then it is considered
lobh (just greed). Then he would not have an intense greed
(lalacha) for anything else, would he? No. But a person with
intense greed will have all kinds of intense greed (lalacha) he
will be absorbed in all kinds of lalacha.