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Life Without Conflict
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Remain Dramatic in Everything that is Mandatory
This is a drama! Life is a drama. How can you make the
sons and daughters in a play, yours forever? Yes, there is
nothing wrong in saying, “This is my son. May he live a hundred
years,” but you have to say it in a very superficial manner, as
if you are acting in a play. For believing all these relations to be
real, you have to do pratikraman. Wherever you have
perceived something to be real when in reality, it is not,
attachment and abhorrence arise. However, through
pratikraman, you will attain liberation. Alochana, pratikraman,
and pratyakhyan, as shown by Dada, leads to liberation
(alochana = confession; pratikraman = repenting; pratyakhyan
= avowal not to repeat the mistake).
This worldly life is nothing but a big joke. What would
your son say if you were to fight with him for an hour? “Either
you leave or I will leave,” he would say. Then you as a father
would retort, “I will not give you your inheritance.” The son
would then question, “Who are you to stop me from receiving
it?” He will be sure to procure his inheritance by any means
necessary. There was one son who offered his lawyer an
additional three hundred rupees to humiliate his father. The
father told his son, “Had I known you were going to turn out
like this, I would have killed you the day you were born!” The
son responded, “It truly is a miracle that you did not.” How
could the father have killed his son if his karma had destined
him to be insulted in this manner by his son? There have been
countless such incidents, which, had you been a witness to,
your eardrums would have burst! You pitiful people, let it be
known that incidents much worse than this have occurred! So
now, turn towards your Self. There is nothing but ghosts in the
non-self, no matter where you go.
For a female dog, nursing her puppies is a mandatory act;