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pride, deceit and greed, leave and you become straight, then
you will attain moksha.
Obstinacy during the early years of Ambalal
Patel (Dadashri’s relative self)
Back in the old days, there was a saying:
“Duniya diwani kahevashe re, bhoondi bhito ma
bhatkashe.
paap ey enu jyare pragat thashe, tyare bhuva-jati
gher jashe”
Meaning when one’s demerit karmas come into fruition,
he will resort to all kinds of solutions; he will seek help of the
exorcists, voodooist, black magicians etc. So a person looks
for an exorcist, a saint, or others for help when his demerit
karma expresses its effect. Some poet has sung something like
that.
Questioner: Dada, when did you read this pad (poetic
hymn)?
Dadashri: It is about fifty-five years old; it is not very
old. It is not a two or five thousand years old saying.
Questioner: But how can you remember it all?
Dadashri: ‘We’ do not remember anything. ‘We’ do not
even remember whether today is Monday or Tuesday!
Questioner: Then where did all this come from, Dada?
Dadashri: ‘We’ can see it all. If ‘we’ turn one way, ‘we’
can immediately see everything and therefore ‘we’ speak. If
‘we’ see anything beneficial, then ‘we’ will say it. Why would
‘we’ try to commit anything to memory? ‘We’ continue to see
all the way back to when I was young. ‘We’ can see all the
phases…‘it was like this…it was like that… ‘we’ used to enter
the classroom only after the school bell rang; ‘we’ can see all