Pure Love
53
Tears Do Not Express Real feelings
Questioner: You have to express feelings to live in this
world. You have to display feelings. If you do not show any
feelings, then people will think you are insensitive. Now along
with receiving this Gnan, comes the understanding of the Gnan.
Then our feelings are not so easily expressed. Should they not
be expressed in our daily life?
Dadashri: You just have to observe what happens.
Questioner: Say for example if the son is going abroad
for his education and the parents go to see him off at the
airport. The mother starts to cry but not the father. People will
say that he has no feelings, he is like a stone.
Dadashri: No. His feelings are not like that. So what if
the son is going abroad? If she is overcome with tears and
starts to cry, you should gently say, ‘how long are you going to
remain weak like this, especially when you want liberation from
all worldly entanglements?’
Questioner: No, if he did not express that much feeling,
then a man is considered hard-hearted. A man without feelings
is hard-hearted.
Dadashri: True feelings lie with those who do not shed
tears. Your feelings are wrong. Your feelings are demonstrated,
while his, which are not shown, are real. Feelings are from the
heart. People have misunderstood all this. Feelings cannot be
forced. It is a natural gift. If you tell someone that he is as
hard as a rock, then you will stop whatever feelings he may
otherwise have. It is not feelings when one cries one moment
and forgets the next. Feeling is not to cry and yet to remember
all the time.
Even I have feelings. I never cry and yet I have constant
feelings towards everyone. That is because the more the people