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Mercy – Compassion
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Today our satsang topic is
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Mercy (daya) and compassion (karuna)
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Generally speaking everyone thinks
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that daya and karuna are the same thing
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There doesn’t seem like there is any difference between the two
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Daya and karuna
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But in spirituality (adhyatmik) there is a vast difference
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[just like the difference between] the sky and the earth
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There is that much of a difference [between the two]
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The amount of difference there exists
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between knowledge (gnan) and ignorance (agnan)
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that is the amount of difference between daya and karuna
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Daya occurs where there is ignorance [of the Self]
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and after gnan there is karuna
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Daya is considered an attribute of the Ego (ahamkar)
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And karuna begins after the ahamkar leaves
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Now people, generally find this astonishing
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that daya is being considered egotistical
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in the state of ignorance (agnan),
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daya is considered to be the highest of virtues (sadguna)
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And that is correct as well
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daya is said to be the root of religion (dharma)
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it is considered to be the root of religion (dharma)
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it is not considered to be the root of spiritualism (adhyatma)
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it is not considered to be the root to the path of moksha
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it is not considered to be the root to attaining the Soul
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It does help one start towards [the path of] religion
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then by following this, after a long period of time
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once the Self is attained
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after that karuna [starts to flow]…..
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so, the Self is not attainable through daya alone
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[the route] to attain the Self is a whole different story
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Of the infinite virtues, this [daya] is just one virtue
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that is [beneficial]…
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for one to progress in religion,
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for one to become spiritually ready,
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of all these right worldly interactions
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daya actually falls under this category of right worldly interactions
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a lot more [virtues] are needed along with that
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but daya is one of the big things [needed]
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But
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Gnanis and Tirthankars don’t have daya
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They have karuna
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They do not have an iota of daya
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Why?
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Because they don’t have ahamkar
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daya will only last if it is on the basement of ahamkar
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if there is no ahamkar
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then there is no daya there
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then one cannot maintain daya
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then in that case, there will only be karuna
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where is the difference between the two [daya and karuna]?
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Daya is considered to be an attribute with duality (dwandva guna)
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An attribute with duality
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and karuna does not have duality within it
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What is an attribute with duality (dwandva guna)?
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Where there is mercy (daya),
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mercilessness (nirdayata) also exists in those cases
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On one side there is mercy and
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on the other side there is mercilessness
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both are always together
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dwandva means both [exist] together
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Just like sukh (happiness) and dukh (suffering)
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are called dwandva guna
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Good and bad are dwandva guna
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When two attributes exist together
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they are called dwandva guna
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Duality
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‘dwandva’ means duality
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Where there is daya there is mercilessness for sure
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that is what is said
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How?
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As an example
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Wherever daya exists
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there is ahamkar there
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One is not able to see [bear] the suffering (dukh) of others
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One goes into suffering due to the suffering of others
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That suffering that one feels,
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the dukh one feels due to the suffering of others
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what is the part that is feeling this dukh?
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It is the ego (ahamkar)
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However, the tirthankars don’t have ahamkar within
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They don’t become pained due to others’ suffering
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A person with daya will always be helping others
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Why does he do this?
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Because he can’t see the suffering of others
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he can’t bear it
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The suffering of others
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makes him feel such unbearable suffering…
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such immense pain
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that to stop his own pain
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he will verily help the other person
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he has to help them
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he can’t stay without getting involved
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all these actions are taking place at a very subtle level
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these processes of the mind (mun), intellect (budhi), chit and ego
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are taking place at the subtle level
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Whereas the Gnanis, the Atma Gnanis, the Tirthankars
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don’t feel daya
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They don’t even feel dukh either
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They feel karuna
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When a mouse passes by…
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or when a small mouse passes by
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and a cat is pouncing to kill the mouse
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Then all these people who are full of daya
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will begin to jump up and down right there and then
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they get angry at the cat
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To save the rat, they hit the cat
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They throw the kitchen tongs [at the cat]
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they break the cats' leg
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and from within they feel happy that they saved the mouse
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they taste the sweet juice of doership (garvaras)
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that “I saved it [the mouse]”
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“I saved the mouse”
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And they feel contempt for the cat
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So for both cases; for one they felt daya
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and for the cat, they felt mercilessness
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so it become duality (dwandva)
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thus if daya exists then somewhere in some corner
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there verily will lie mercilessness
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it will be there…
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so for all those who are full of daya,
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it is always like this
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They try to save one,
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as a result
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they do [the opposite] with the other one
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Do you understand this?
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This is true for people with daya
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Whilst the Gnani’s don’t have daya
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Dada said,
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“We don’t have a cent of daya”
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“We don’t feel suffering if others are suffering”
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“We have compassion (karuna)”
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Karuna means that they feel the same for both;
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there is karuna for the mouse
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and there is also karuna for the cat
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There is no contempt
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Nor does the thought to kill them arise
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there are no feelings of any kind for either
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For both [animals] the inner intent is that of karuna
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now how can one have karuna for the mouse?
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And now how can one also have karuna for the cat?
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What must be the internal state of the Gnani?
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What [understanding] is set within,
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to actually have the same inner intent for both [animals]?
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They can see in their gnan
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What [do they see]?
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They [Gnanis] can see for both [animals]
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They can see it for the cat
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and they can see it for the mouse as well
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They see
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‘that really the cat is not charging any new karmas
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but right now
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the discharge to kill [the mouse] that has come
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[she will have to suffer] another discharge for this discharge
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this karmic account (hisaab) won’t leave her,
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during her discharge of the discharge’
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So they [Gnanis] will have karuna for her
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‘That what is this poor thing doing
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she has no idea what the result of this [action] will be’
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and on the other side
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they [Gnanis] have karuna for the mouse
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‘That this poor thing,
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has got this hisaab to suffer right now,
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although as a result,
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he [the mouse] is progressing to a higher development
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but he has this kind of a hisaab to die in this way’
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and in this manner they feel karuna [for the two]
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So, mercy and mercilessness doesn’t arise
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it is the same for both
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Gnani’s do not do any interference - reactions to interferences
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Tirthankars don’t have any interfere or reactions to interferences
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That is why
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Tirthankars are called idols of compassion,
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they are called oceans of compassion
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They constantly have karuna
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They have karuna towards all the living beings of this world
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Besides that, they have nothing else,
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They don’t want anything from anybody
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They don’t have ahamkar there
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They don’t have any inner intent to take or give
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They don’t have any inner intent to save or to kill
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To want to kill is verily ahamkar
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And to want to save is also ahamkar
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So ahamkar verily remains
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whereas in their [Gnanis/Tirthankars] case,
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there is no ahamkar
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When you try to explain this, still one doesn’t understand
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common people have a lot of inner intent to save,
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and that [inner intent] should be there
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because they are in the worldly life
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and they are with ahamkar
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therefore this is a positive ahamkar
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we are not saying that it [the ahamkar] is wrong
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but for those who want to attain the Self and go to Moksha
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they will have to become free of ahamkar,
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the direction they have chosen is different
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their destination is different
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this discussion is for them
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it is not for the common person
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for the common people,
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doing this and having daya is correct for them
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if that wasn’t there,
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then they would walk in the wrong direction
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because the Self has not been attained
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and the ahamkar hasn’t left
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if it [ahamkar] doesn’t fall into saving then
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it [ahamkar] will fall into hurting
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one or the other will be there
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in duality
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do you understand?
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this is a very minute point
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the demarcation is extremely minute
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it is an extremely minute demarcation
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between daya and karuna
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Even in your business
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this verily happens…
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The opposite party [antagonist]
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And our party versus
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the opposite party
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It happens in religion
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It also happens in business
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‘We’ are in none of this
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Everyone is seen in the form of the Self
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They are seen as if they were my own Self
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If this vision exists
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If this vision of the Self exists
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only then will karuna begin to flow
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Even if the slightest vision of the non-Self complex exists
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then karuna will not flow there
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and as a result mercy will come into existence
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and mercilessness will occur inevitably over there
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Experience this for yourself
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And then it will verily affect you inside
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The same [event] will be visible within
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It doesn’t go out of one’s chit
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The photo gets snapped there
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Uneasiness occurs over there
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You can’t bear the other person’s dukh
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And you feel inner suffering inside
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This is what is to be seen in todays’ samayik
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That
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How much of it is daya for us?
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observe that
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in the prakruti [mind-body complex] this part is daya
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And we have to come out of that
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And the ahamkar that is behind it
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observe that ahamkar - wherever the daya has arisen
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getting out of ahamkar, we have to move towards karuna
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Jai Sat Chit Anand