Nature Is Actually Helpful

Who gives you misery? Your anger, pride, deceit, and greed. What is the fault of nature in this?

Nature has not come into existence in order to give misery to anyone. If nature were to give misery, then all these animals would be miserable. Do they have hospitals? These oceans are filled with tens of millions, billions, an infinite number of living beings; are there hospitals inside the oceans? And look at how many hospitals there are for these four billion people! There are doctors abound! And yet these humans do not know how to live, do they! There are so many hospitals! There are so many litigations in courts, there are so many lawyers! So they do not know how to live at all, do they!

This is worldly life! It has arisen through the ego. The ego meaning through vikalp. The vikalp of the Self means ego. ‘I [am Chandubhai] and I did it’; with this, it progresses. Then, even when he takes a beating, the ego will not relent, because after a while, he indeed feels, ‘I have four oxen, these cows and all; I am greater than all of these people, aren’t I?’ The awareness of ‘I am greater’ prevails. So these people indeed have no misery at all! Even if a Chakravarti (emperor of six continents) were to give you his empire, it is not worth taking. Once you enter into it, there is no end to the suffering! Instead, why don’t You go back to Your own ‘town’ [the Self]; there is no other bliss like it. There is no bliss in any other country compared to the bliss that is found in Your ‘country’.

A human being becomes ahamkaari ( laden with ego) after he becomes vikalpi ( has the wrong belief that ‘ I am Chandubhai’ and all the relative ‘I-ness’ that stems from it). What does he become?

Questioner: He becomes ego laden ( ahamkaari).

Dadashri: Until then, the ego is considered normal. It is a natural ego, proper ego. However, upon becoming vikalpi, he becomes liable. So, after becoming liable, misery is inevitable. As long as he is not liable, nature never gives any misery to anyone at all.

In nature’s home, there is no misery in the Self and Its realm ( Nishchay) nor is there misery in worldly interactions ( vyavahaar). Worldly interactions have become painful because the entire world does not have this understanding. One doesn’t know how to interact in worldly interactions. Worldly interactions should be nirlep (absolutely unaffected; without any effect from any karma). Once the worldly interactions become nirlep, there is no end to the bliss!

Questioner: So is suffering created only by human beings?