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What causes a person’s external conduct to be bad? It is because of failure to find happiness (External Bliss) from the external world. The external conduct improves as one acquires the infinite bliss within.
Why has worldly conduct degraded and deteriorated? It is because there is no happiness (External Bliss) in the external world. For the one who has received the Self, even though there may be continuing agony, he does not feel it because now there is eternal bliss within. You are the pure Self now, and you should stay away from corrupt and immoral conduct, even if you have to employ your ego to do so.
The destruction of conflict is one of the most important components of liberation. Bliss follows the destruction of conflict. You may not have Knowledge (Gnan) but when can you say you have religion (External Bliss) at home? It is when you tolerate any kind of environment and do not add fuel to the fire of conflict at home, then you are considered a noble man. God lives in such a house. Everything gets destroyed wherever there is conflict. God will not reside in a home where conflicts occur and Laxmiji, the Goddess of wealth too would leave.
You are unable to understand the real nature of pleasure and pain. Intellect will always show you the contrary; that which is not in your real benefit. It derives only the transient happiness from material things. There is no happiness in material things. What would happen if someone were to scratch or dent your new car? Whatever pleasure you derive through the intellect ultimately results in misery. Drawn by the attraction of things, the intellect superimposes happiness on them. There are infinite things. In order to discover the bliss of the Self, each individual non realized-soul tastes one thing after another and then decides wherein lies this happiness (External Bliss). That is what humans are in search of. First they decide that happiness lies in wealth but then they becomes obsessed with money and suffer miserably. Then they decide that happiness lies in a woman. So then they look for sex in addition to wealth. They are convinced that happiness lies only with these two. But when their wives retort rudely, it ignites a fire within them. What happens when their wealth turns against them? If the income tax department raids their homes, the same wealth will become the source of their misery.
Result of Scientific Circumstantial Evidence – Vyavasthit Shakti
When one is not the doer and yet claims to be one, how can you call that a principle? It is a contradiction. So who wakes you up in the morning? It is a force called Result of Scientific Circumstantial Evidence (vyavasthit shakti) that wakes you up. This same force keeps the sun, the moon, the stars and the entire universe in regulation. It is the same force that clears away the pollution caused by these industrial mills in Ahemdabad, otherwise people of Ahmedabad would have suffocated to death a long time ago. When it rains, who goes up there to make water for the rain? It is a natural adjustment, when two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen come together, along with some other evidences like air, etc. water is formed and the rain falls. A scientist may claim to create water but if you ask him whether he can do so with only one atom of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen, he will tell you that it is not possible. People are foolish to think that they are the doers, when in reality they are just one of the many evidences in a process. How can anyone be the maker? There is no maker in this world; everyone is simply an ‘instrument’ (nimit) in the process. Even God is not the maker or creator. If one becomes the doer of anything then he also becomes the sufferer of that action. God is just the knower and perceiver and in eternal bliss. He is always immersed in his own infinite bliss- the bliss of the Self.
Use of the authority of the non-self leads to worries. What has been acquired in the foreign department (non-self) will remain in the foreign realm. You have acquired a wealth of cars, bungalow, factories, wife and children, which will have to be left behind when you leave. At the final station no power can save you. You will be allowed to carry forward only your merit and de-merit karma. In other words whatever wrong you do here will carry forward with you. The wealth you acquire through your wrong doings will be left behind but your liability for those actions will be carried forward. You will acquire a new body based on your actions and you will have to start all over again to repay your past life’s debts. So you unfortunate souls! Better shape up from the start. There is so much bliss in your own homeland but you haven’t seen it!
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