When one makes a lot of money he takes credit for it and claims that it was through his effort and hard work. And when he incurs  a loss he will say ‘what can I do?’ and blames his horoscope or luck or the God above.  The fool!  He takes credit for good things and claims to be helpless when things go wrong. He may even blame God for his failure saying, ‘it is the will of the Lord’. In fact his horoscope or the stars do not hinder him in any way. What hinders him are his own internal negative ‘stars’ – his obstinacy, excessive obstinacy, insistence on being right, insistence on relative truth etc. I am without obstinacy. Where there is obstinacy there is conflict and when I am not obstinate about anything how can there be any conflict? When everything runs systematically, success is the end result but when there is a break in the systematic process people blame God.  The effort to convert that, which is disorderly, into orderly, is defined by the world as independent effort (purusharth). If one were truly capable of doing purusharth, he would never incur a loss. Real purusharth has no failures. Here is the contradiction: How can you do purusharth, when you have not become a purush (Self-realized)? True purusharth is the one that is done through the extraordinary effort of the Self (after Self realization). People are foolish to believe that they are the doer when it is their prakruti (the formed complex of thoughts, speech and acts which is a result of past life karma) that makes them do things.

 

Gnani Purush Dadashri

  

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