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(28) The Laughter of the Liberated One Faultlessness Gives Rise to the Liberated Smile!
Dadashri: How old are you? Questioner: Seventy.
Dadashri: Just look at how even at this age, he looks at me and chuckles like a child! That is called simplicity and straightforwardness (saradata). Has people's laughter been snatched away from them? Why can't they laugh? One would say it is because of inflexibility and unnaturalness (asaradata). So what I tell them to do, is sit here in satsang, all day long. In doing so, their inflexibility and unnaturalness (asaradata) will go away and their laughter will open up. I make you do arati (the ritual of waving lamps in front of an idol or a deity while singing a hymn), because it opens up your laughter. Laughter should arise from the naval (unrestricted). Why do you laugh just from the throat? It is because you have got impurity in your mouth. And when you do arati, all that impurity falls out.
Questioner: What do you consider a mukta hasya (the smile and the laughter of the liberated One)?
Dadashri: Have you seen such mukta hasya? Questioner: We have seen yours, Dada! Dadashri: Does it seem free and unrestricted to you?
Questioner: Yes, it is absolutely the laughter (hasya) of the Vitarag (unattached; free).
