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their suffering?
Dadashri: What is the benefit in killing, then? When you
kill a suffering man, you will lose your birthright to be born as a
human again. It goes against the principles of humanity.
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The cover on this pillow will keep changing, but the pillow
remains the same. When the pillow cover becomes ragged, it will
be discarded. In the same way this covering of ours, this body
too is discarded.
This whole world is hollow and without any substance. But
one cannot say so openly in this world. People go to the cemetery
with their loved ones, but they are not so overcome with grief that
they never return home. They all return home, including the grieving
mother who has just buried her son.
Questioner: If the deceased has not bequeathed anything
to the family, they will cry and complain. But if he leaves them
enough, they will remain silent.
Dadashri: Yes, they shed tears because he leaves them
nothing. In their minds they blame him for leaving nothing behind
and ruining them. It is because of the family’s own lack of punya
– meritorious deeds - that he did not leave anything behind for
them and it is because of the deceased’s bad karmas that he is
being cursed and blamed.
All who go to the funeral home, return, do they not? Does
anyone accompany the dead one? Really, all this is a show. People
criticize the ones who do not cry or grieve as being heartless. And
they accuse those who cry as being emotional and melodramatic.
So whatever one does, there is a problem either way. The world
will criticize either way.