Dadashri: A person practices his religion every day, but all day long, he runs around in turmoil and restlessness. The Lord tells us that it can be called religion, if it brings results. If all devotees just thought about this much, they would start wondering about why their religion has not yielded anything for them. If artadhyan (adverse internal meditation that hurts the self) and raudradhyan (adverse internal meditation that hurts the self and others) continue to occur with the same intensity, would you not realise that there is a mistake somewhere? Do you understand what artadhyan and raudradhyan mean?

Questioner: No, would you please explain?

Dadashri: If five people came to your home as guests, at eleven O’clock at night, would it affect you at all?

Questioner: It depends on who the guests are. If I liked my guests, it would not bother me. But if I did not like the guest, I would think: ‘Why has he come so late at night?’

Dadashri: The pleasure you experience when you see the guests that you like is also artadhyan. And when the guest that you dislike shows up, and you think to yourself: ‘What is he doing here?’ It is also artadhyan. Although you are annoyed to see the guests, you still say to them: ‘Come in, come on in.’ You only say this because you want to save face and protect your reputation (aabaru). All for the sake of protecting their reputation, these so-called ‘respectable’ people are spoiling their lives to come!

Nevertheless, you invite them in: ‘Do come in please.’ Then you quietly go and ask the wife: “When did they say they were leaving? They have come with big suitcases!” Hey! They have just got here, and you are already thinking: ‘When are they leaving? When will they leave?’

When will this suffering (dukh) ever end? How can religion ever produce any results? Even if there are eleven visitors, religion would gently say: “Welcome, come in,” without any other hassle and without resentment. If you have any resentment in your mind, your guests will surely recognise it from your face. This is what you would call artadhyan. The fruit of artadhyan is Tiryancha gati (birth in animal life-form).

What is raudradhyan? You initially turn red when someone insults you. If someone says: “Chandubhai has no sense,” you are instantly offended, and the intellect will arise. That is called raudradhyan. When you feel aggravated, then that is called raudradhyan. And the fruit of raudradhyan will be Narak gati (a life in hell). Now tell me, would the Lord have spoken justly or unjustly? The Lord would not have spoken unjustly, now would he? The vitarag Lord would never be unjust.

Now, why can a person not tolerate insult or hurt? It is because ‘he has not known religion, has not listened to religion, nor has had faith in religion’. He has not heard real religion yet. If he listens to the religion (dharma) and establishes faith in it, the religion would then help him. However, religion does not wait, does it now? You are not the only one who has this problem. Real religion is that which frees you from all kinds of suffering (dukh). How can you call it a religion when it increases one’s suffering?

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