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temptation (lalacha) but if someone were to even utter my name
in a negative manner, I would let him have it! Many people
would make comments behind my back like, ‘he is a trouble-
maker’ or ‘Don’t even talk about him, just leave him alone, he
is cantankerous and bad tempered!’ They used all kinds of
adjectives for me! I knew what adjectives they were using for
me, behind my back. But I had no attachment and that was the
main attribute in me. The current glorious state (of a Gnani) is
due to this very attribute. A person with attachment, no matter
how wise, is deeply entrenched in the worldly life. ‘We’ were
without attachment so life has been fun all along. Attachment
verily is the cause of worldly life. The ego is not the cause of
worldly life.
I too feel now that I have straightened up. No one has to
straighten me.
Questioner: How did you become straight, Dada?
Dadashri: People of the world beat me one way or
another; through their devious and worldly ways, they trapped
me one way or another and shaped me up.
Questioner: Has this cleansing (straightening) been
ongoing from your previous lives?
Dadashri: This had been happening from many previous
lives and that is why I became completely straight in this life.
Otherwise, the stock of India is obstinate by nature; you can
never find straightness in India. Some are even born upside
down, feet first and there are others who are obstinate even in
their mother’s womb; they hurt their mothers even when they are
in the womb! Some change to the wrong position in the womb;
they hurt their mother to the point of dying during delivery,
even to the point of hurting the reputation of the obstetrician in
the process.
Questioner: But he does not have any desire to do all
that. Does that not happen on it own?