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Brahmcharya
The world continues to move in this filth, because people do not
understand this. If one gives a moment’s thought to this, then
one would understand that this truly is a heap of filth. It is
nothing but absolute filth. But people do not think at all. Why
are human beings stuck in such dirt? It is because they cannot
find a cleaner place (real happiness) anywhere else, therefore
they continue to lie in this filth.
Questioner : So, isn’t this a matter of ignorance of this
filth?
Dadashri : Yes, it is ignorance and that is why he remains
stuck in this filth. If one tries to, he can understand. He does not
even try to understand this.
There are objects in this world that do not trap you into
an inescapable trap of enjoyment. These things are all that one
consumes for the needs of this body, like food items and water.
This is not vishaya. These objects do not harm you, because
they do not make you involved with them to the exclusion of
everything else. Vishaya in general means that which holds your
attention. Here we are talking about that which will grab you
and take you into life after life. When is anything considered a
vishaya? It is considered a vishaya if you become greedy or
infatuated with it. Otherwise it is not a vishaya. Therefore,
everything you see in this world is not vishaya but if you become
greedy or obsessed with it then it is called vishaya. No vishaya
in this world touches me in any way.
A spider spins a web and then it gets entangled in its own
web. Similarly you, yourself have created this web of entanglement
in worldly life. You had asked for it in your previous life. In the
receptacle of intellect which you have brought forth in this life,
you filled out a tender, a proposal for one wife, two to three
rooms, one son, one daughter and a job. But along with the
wife, you also received a mother-in-law, father-in-law, uncle-in-