The Colors and Fragrances of Flowers in a Garden are Different

Your home is actually like a garden. During the times of Satyug, Dwapar and Tretayug [various era of the time cycle], homes used to be like farms. Some farms had only roses, while others had only plumerias. Nowadays, homes have become like gardens. Should you not examine whether a ‘flower’ [person] is a rose [personality] or a jasmine [personality]? In Satyug it was such that, if one household was of a rose, then everyone in it was a rose; and if another house was of a jasmine, then all within were jasmines. In a family, everyone used to be a rose plant, just as in a farm, so there were no problems. Whereas nowadays, [families] have become like gardens. In one home, one is a rose, another is a jasmine; so the rose complains, ‘Why are you not like me? Look at how white you are, and look at how pretty my color is!’ So the jasmine will reply, ‘You are full of thorns.’ Now, if it is a rose, it will have thorns; if it is a jasmine, there will be no thorns. The jasmine flower will be white, and the rose will be pink or red. Currently, in this time of Kaliyug, there are different plants in just one home. That is why the house has become like a garden. But people do not know how to recognize this, so what happens? That is indeed why pain arises, isn’t it! The world does not have this vision. Otherwise, no one is bad whatsoever. All this divisiveness due to differences of opinions is due to one’s ego. The one who does not know how to see that, it is his ego. I do not  have an ego, therefore I have no divisiveness due to differences of opinions with the world. I know how to see that, ‘This is a rose, this is a jasmine, this is a tulip, and this is the flower of a bitter gourd.’ I recognize all that [the personalities]. So, they have become like gardens. Has that not become a thing to admire? What do you think?


Questioner: That is correct.



Dadashri: It is like this, a change cannot occur in the prakruti. It has its own stock; it does not change. ‘We’ are familiar with each and every prakruti. ‘We’ recognize it immediately. Therefore, ‘we’ interact with people according to their prakruti. If you seek ‘friendship’ with the sun at twelve in the afternoon, then what would happen? Similarly, if you recognize that this is [the heat of the] summer sun while this is [the heat of the] winter sun, then would you have a problem? ‘We’ recognize prakrutis, so even if you are looking to conflict, ‘we’ will not let you conflict; ‘we’ would move away. Otherwise, we would both get into an accident, and both our spare parts would break. If the other persons ‘bumper’ breaks, then what would be the state of the one sitting inside? The condition of the one seated within completely flattens, doesn’t it? Therefore, recognize the prakruti. You should recognize the prakruti of everyone at home. In this Kaliyug, prakrutis are not in the form of a ‘farm’, they are in the form of a ‘garden’ where one is a plumeria, one a rose, one a pink jasmine, and one a white jasmine. All these flowers are fighting. One of them will say, ‘Mine is like this,’ whereas the other will say, ‘Mine is like this.’ One will say, ‘You have thorns, why would I stand next to you?’ And conflicts continue on in this way.

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