First, you have to learn this sort of worldly interaction.
Without having an understanding of worldly interaction,
people endure all kinds of beatings.
Questioner: There are simply no words for what you have to say in spiritual matters, but even regarding worldly interaction, what you say is topmost.
Dadashri: In fact, without the topmost understanding of worldly interaction, no one has attained liberation. No matter how valuable your Knowledge of the Self may be, will worldly interaction let you go? If it does not let you go, then what will you do? You are indeed pure Soul, but only if the worldly life lets you go, isn’t that so? You keep on entangling yourself in the worldly life. Just bring about a solution quickly. Say you were to tell someone, “Go to the shop and buy some ice cream,” and he returns after going only halfway. When you ask him, “Why?” he tells you, “I came across a donkey on the way; that is a bad omen!” Now, he has acquired wrong knowledge, so you should remove that, shouldn’t you? It has to be explained to him that, “Dear fellow, God also resides within a donkey; therefore, there is no such thing as omen. If you scorn a donkey like that, it reaches the God within it. Hence, you incur a tremendous error. Do not do this again.” This is how wrong knowledge has come about and due to that, people are not able to adjust.
Questioner: There are simply no words for what you have to say in spiritual matters, but even regarding worldly interaction, what you say is topmost.
Dadashri: In fact, without the topmost understanding of worldly interaction, no one has attained liberation. No matter how valuable your Knowledge of the Self may be, will worldly interaction let you go? If it does not let you go, then what will you do? You are indeed pure Soul, but only if the worldly life lets you go, isn’t that so? You keep on entangling yourself in the worldly life. Just bring about a solution quickly. Say you were to tell someone, “Go to the shop and buy some ice cream,” and he returns after going only halfway. When you ask him, “Why?” he tells you, “I came across a donkey on the way; that is a bad omen!” Now, he has acquired wrong knowledge, so you should remove that, shouldn’t you? It has to be explained to him that, “Dear fellow, God also resides within a donkey; therefore, there is no such thing as omen. If you scorn a donkey like that, it reaches the God within it. Hence, you incur a tremendous error. Do not do this again.” This is how wrong knowledge has come about and due to that, people are not able to adjust.
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