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Dadashri: So the intense greed will not leave because of
fear. And he has fear, ‘This pleasure of mine will go away.’ Why
don’t you let it go? Only then will that bliss arrive.
Removing lalacha through the ego
Questioner: In a sense, is intense greed (lalacha) not the
fruition of one’s karma; is it not the effect of one’s karma?
Dadashri: Yes it is, but it is wrong, is it not?
Questioner: So then what causes it to arise?
Dadashri: When the right circumstances arise, intense
greed will arise.
Questioner: Will it go away if he scornfully rejects
(tiraskar) the things he has an intense greed for?
Dadashri: Scorn or not but when he rejects one thing,
there will arise intense greed for another. And there are many
things out there, which create an intense greed within. Just as
there are many things in a grocery store, similarly there are many
things within a lalachu. The problem is solved only when he gets
rid of everything, the whole entire stock all at once! Otherwise,
rejection with scorn (tiraskar) for one thing will cause him to
sink deeper into another. One day, by sitting in our satsangs, it
will go away, but it will not go away suddenly; lalacha is not
easy to get rid of.
There is no way to get rid of intense greed unless you do
it through the ego. You have to have tremendous ego in order
to get rid of it. It can be done; ask Dada for the strength and
then awaken the ego, then you will be able to get rid of it
through the ego. It cannot be rid of otherwise. How can you get
rid of that which has become natural to one’s daily life (sahaj)?
You can get rid of it through your ego, but then you have to get
rid of that ego later. First, you have to get rid of the intense
greed (lalacha) and then the ego.