The Practice Of Humanity

SR No.: 034336
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Aradhana Trust
Total Pages: 44
Language: English
Classification: Book_Other
File Size: 1 MB

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The Practice of Humanity
were saying, “Don't take him, don't take him.' So when a person dies, then he is taken away.” Therefore, once he understands this, he will not touch it. Knowledge should be set in one's understanding.
Once you are told, “Hey, this is poison!" then that knowledge should always be in your awareness. And the knowledge that does not remain in awareness is not knowledge at all. It is ignorance (agnan) indeed. If you are given the knowledge to go to Ahmedabad from here, if you are given a map and all that, but it does not take you there, then the map is certainly incorrect. The [result] should come about in exactness.
The Reasons for Wandering in the Four Realms of
Existence... Questioner: Please tell us something about the duty of a human being.
Dadashri: As far as the duty of a human being is concerned, let me tell you what the limit is for one who surely wants to be reborn as a human being. For those who do not want to go higher up or lower down; higher up meaning the celestial life-form (dev gati), and lower down meaning the animal life-form (jaanvar gati), and even lower than that is the life-form in hell (nark gati). There are so many different realms of existence. Are you asking only about being reborn as a human being?
Questioner: As long as there is this body, we have to carry out the duties as a human being, don't we?
Dadashri: It is because you fulfilled your duties as a human [in the past life] that you have acquired this human life-form. You have already passed in that, so now what do you want to pass in? There are two possibilities in this world. One is that, after coming into the human life-form,