Sufferings Were Invited Through the Interference of the Ego

After an evening meal, you are able to fall asleep, are you not? Then you start snoring away! Hey, why don’t you investigate what goes on inside [the body]? There you will say, “What can I do in that?” And what is nature like? Gastric acid, bile are released by the digestive system, other enzymes are released. And by morning time, the blood is in its right place, then the urine is where it needs to be, and the excrement is in its correct place. How beautiful is this systematic arrangement! Nature performs such a monumental task inside the body! If a doctor were put in charge of a person’s digestion, then he would end up killing the person! If the doctor were assigned the task of releasing the gastric acid, the bile, and all other tasks, then what would the doctor do? “Since you aren’t hungry, let me release more gastric acid today.” Now the law of nature is that it has produced enough gastric acid to last until one dies. Now [the doctor] would have released so much of the gastric acid

on Sunday that the food would not get digested at all on Wednesday! He would release the amount for Wednesday on Sunday instead!

How wonderful it is that the power is in the hands of nature! Whereas in your hands, you are [handling] a business and even the business is not in your hands, you simply have come to believe, ‘I am running a business!’ So you needlessly keep fretting! If you are going from Dadar to Central Mumbai in a taxi, then you fret with anxious thoughts such as ‘It will crash, it will crash!’ Hey, no one is going to crash into you. Keep moving forward on your own while looking straight ahead! What is your responsibility? To move forward while looking straight ahead. In reality, even that is not your responsibility. Nature makes you do that too. However, you do not look at what is coming and you create interference. Nature is so wonderful! There is a vast factory that runs within, so won’t the external one work as well? There is nothing at all to run on the outside. What needs to be run?

Questioner: If a living being does something wrong, is that too not under his control?

Dadashri: No, he does not have control, but he cannot make it go wrong either. It is because the intents that were done were good or bad that he ends up doing wrong. He has interfered in the workings of nature. Otherwise, what are these crows and dogs, these animals like? They do not require hospitals or legal courts; how do they resolve their conflicts? When two bulls fight, they fight a lot, but once they’re done, do they go looking for a court? If you see them the next day, they are both roaming around leisurely! Whereas these foolish human beings have courts and hospitals and even then they are constantly unhappy! These people cry their tales of woe daily. Can you call these people unfortunate or fortunate? Just look at how attractive these sparrows and other birds, dogs and so on look! Do they take any special herbal concoctions during the winter? And these wretched humans do not look attractive even after taking all these concoctions; they appear unattractive. It is because of the ego that even the most beautiful person appears ugly. Therefore, there must be some mistake somewhere. Should you not think about this?

Questioner: Is the main reason that all our energies get veiled indeed the ego?

Dadashri: It is indeed because of the ego that all the energies have gotten squandered, isn’t it! It [the ego] is always blind. Now, we make divisions of the ego, we make divisions as to ‘Which subject is there ego for?’ For this person, there is more ego when it comes to greed, for this other person, there is more ego when it comes to pride; there are various types of egos. So, it is indeed the ego that hinders a person. All of these problems are because of the ego. It is necessary to make that ego nonexistent.

The law of nature is that wherever there is less ego, things are attained more easily. This child is straightforward, so he is able to get whatever he wants. The

ego is what causes separation with God. However much ego has departed, that much oneness one has [with God]. It is the law of nature that when one believes ‘I am something,’ he becomes separate from God.

These humans exercise egoism and nature strikes blows to bring them down. Nature says, “I am the one doing [all this], so why are you exercising egoism?”