|| Shri Hari ||

Prison -  A School

(A discourse given in the Nagpur Prison)

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You are not even required to speak a lot.   Your officers, have to command,  therefore they are required to speak;  but you are not required to speak much of anything.   Therefore you can do Naam Japa in an exceptional manner.  Every few minutes,   call out ‘ O’  Lord !   Let me never forget you;   O’  Lord ! May I develop Love for your Lotus Feet !’ ‒ in this manner,  continue to pray to the Lord,  and do ‘Naam Japa’.   

Be a well-wisher of all, from the heart.   Do not wish bad of anyone.   Do not even wish ill of even the one who had filed a lawsuit against you,  and got you imprisoned;   because he has done so, to cleanse you off your sins.   If you are purified,  then you will not need to take birth time and again,  nor will you need to go to prison.    Staying in a mother’s womb is a very heavy duty prison.   A ‘jiva’  encounters a lot of difficult over there,  he suffers a lot;  but time and again he has to go back there, due to sins.   Therefore,  if the ‘kaaran’  (instrument of action) is destroyed, then the ‘kaarya’ (action) will be wiped out on its own   ‒‘मूलाभावे कुतः शाखा ।’   When the root itself is cut off,  then how will the branches come ?   Therefore,  one should never engage in sins,  injustice,  bad conduct,  etc.   neither should one steal, rob,  or harm anyone.    He who causes pain to others with mind, body, and speech, will have to suffer -  this is the truth.   

As is the seed,  so is the tree,  and with that tree,  so will come the same seed.   In the same way, he who causes pain to others,  he will have to suffer.    By causing pain to others whether one gets pleasures,  by snatching away someone’s wealth, by beating others whether one becomes rich at present, whether on becomes pleased right now,  but in the end,  one will have to suffer, you cannot escape it.   There is a lot of justice in the Lord’s kingdom,  there is fairness.  Here,  by lying, cheating too,  a man can escape punishment,  but in God’s kingdom, you cannot be saved.   there you will not be able to get false witnesses,  and you will not get defense lawyers either.   There you will have to bear punishment according to the sins that are committed.   

All of you, pay some attention.   Just as a fan runs,  a light bulb lights up,   a speaker amplifies the sound -  all this is taking place due to electricity.   When the representative of the electric company comes to your house,  he does not ask you how much electricity you all have used up,  how did you do so,  when did you do so ?  The meter is installed,  and simply by looking at the meter,  he determines your bill and invoices you for the number of units of electricity consumed.   That is the amount you owe him.  In the same way,  we all have a meter within us.   

‒From the book in Hindi ‘Vaastavik Sukh ’  by Swami Ramsukhdasji