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Right Understanding to Help Others
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New Goal Today is Different from What Happens in
This Life
Questioner: Should one live life only for others?
Dadashri: Yes, one should live life serving others. If you
were to change all of a sudden and do this, you may become
discouraged because you will still continue to experience suffering
because of reactions from karma of your past life. Suffering may
come for awhile, but eventually it will cease. Even though the
effect of karma from your past life is inevitable, at least now you
are starting out afresh, are you not?
For the Benefit of One’s Own Self
You will always be rewarded for helping others and living
for others, but these rewards will be worldly in nature, such as
material comforts.
Questioner: What if instead of obliging others, one obliges
one’s own self?
Dadashri: That is the goal. Ultimately, everything has to
be done for the benefit of the self. Those who do this attain
liberation but in order to do so, one has to know his real Self.
Until then, one has to be benevolent towards others which will
yield worldly rewards. In order to know the Self, you must know
who You are. In reality, you are a pure Soul. You believe, ‘I am
Chandulal.’ That is your conviction and along with that come
countless other beliefs of being a husband, an uncle, a brother,
a boss, etc. This is the only knowledge you have so far, is that
correct? You have not gone beyond this knowledge, have you?
Helping People is a Societal Duty
Questioner: When we have kindness towards others,
when we help people, for example, by finding them a job or a
place in the hospital if they are sick, is that not fulfilling a worldly
duty (dharma)?