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Life Without Conflict
of relative religion (vyavahaar dharma). This is the code of
conduct for life’s daily interactions. This is the art of living. You
cannot learn this art through penance, fasting or renunciation of
the worldly life. Fast if you develop problems with indigestion.
He who masters the art of living acquires the whole
vyavahar dharma, but the real religion, the knowledge of the
Self (Atma dharma, nischaya dharma) will be attained by the
one who comes into this world with prior spiritual development.
In the Akram path (the short-cut, step-less path to Self-
realization), one attains the Self through the grace of the Gnani
Purush. The Gnani Purush has the capacity to grace one with
both infinite knowledge and infinite worldly wisdom; both are so
wonderful that they abolish all kinds of miseries.
Understanding That Leads to Suffering in Life
This Gnan is such that it repairs and corrects, and people
are such that they ruin and make wrong of everything that is
right. They do so because they have the wrong understanding;
otherwise there is no suffering in India whatsoever. All suffering
is due to lack of right understanding. People blame the
government or God for their suffering. Alas people have only
learnt to disgrace and defame others.
If a person accidentally ingests poison, will the poison
spare him?
Questioner : No it would not.
Dadashri : Why not? He drank it accidentally. Since he
did not drink it on purpose, will the poison not let him escape?
Questioner : No, he cannot escape the effect of the
poison.
Dadashri : So who kills him? It is the poison that kills
him, not God. God does not give suffering or anything else,