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life; everything in it is compulsory and mandatory. They will not
let you live and neither will they let you die.
So try to adjust any way that you can and pass the time
so that your karmic debts are paid off and cleared. You may
have a debt of twenty-five years with someone, fifteen years
with another, ten years with another and thirty years with
someone else; you have no choice but pay off the debt.
Whether you like it or not, you have no choice but live in the
same room as that person. You sleep on one side and she
sleeps on the other and even if you turn your back to each
other, your thoughts are of each other. There is no escaping.
This indeed is the nature of this world. What is more, it is not
only that you do not like her; she too may not like you. There
is no happiness in this world.
A thinking person cannot afford to have conflicts that
create worldly bondage. A non-discerning person is not even
aware of the trap and the bondage in clashing. If you say
something derogatory about a deaf man in his presence, he
would be unaffected because he simply cannot hear. In the
same way, people are deaf on the inside. This is the ignorance,
and that is why they put up with all the quarrels and the
conflicts. People look for happiness in the worldly life, how can
there ever be happiness in it?
Why Protect That Has No Value?
This whole world is hollow and without substance.
People bicker and fight inside their homes but when they go
out, they wash their faces before they leave! And if you ask
them how they are doing, they will reply, “Very well.” You fool!
There are tears in your eyes and you may have washed your
face but your eyes are still all red! Instead, why not just tell
people you are unhappy at home. Everyone believes there is
happiness in everyone else’s home except his or her own. They