Saiyam Prevails in Inhospitable Circumstances
Once, there was a bus coming from Mumbai to our place in Bhadran (Dadashri’s hometown); those from Mumbai were coming to Bhadran for darshan (devotional viewing). So they had rented a bus. What time did it arrive?
Questioner: They had actually given us the time for five o’clock.
Dadashri: Everyone was given the time for five o’clock. So every single person had woken up early, had breakfast, took showers, and came. Then?
Questioner: The bus came at eleventhirty.
Dadashri: The bus came at eleven-thirty. But they were not disturbed in the slightest, all fifty of those people. No complaints, no grievances, no shouting, no uproar. No foul facial expressions. As if nothing had happened. Was there any shouting or uproar then?
Questioner: No, there was happiness.
Dadashri: Upon coming to Bhadran, everyone started telling me, “If this happened to people of our caste, then everyone would have an outcry. They would start quarreling. Here, they were not disturbed in the slightest.” This has happened in every occasion for us.
When there is no disturbance in the slightest in every occasion, that is called religion (dharma).
When is there the true beginning of religion? Saiyam.
The beginning is after there is saiyam.
Once, there was a bus coming from Mumbai to our place in Bhadran (Dadashri’s hometown); those from Mumbai were coming to Bhadran for darshan (devotional viewing). So they had rented a bus. What time did it arrive?
Questioner: They had actually given us the time for five o’clock.
Dadashri: Everyone was given the time for five o’clock. So every single person had woken up early, had breakfast, took showers, and came. Then?
Questioner: The bus came at eleventhirty.
Dadashri: The bus came at eleven-thirty. But they were not disturbed in the slightest, all fifty of those people. No complaints, no grievances, no shouting, no uproar. No foul facial expressions. As if nothing had happened. Was there any shouting or uproar then?
Questioner: No, there was happiness.
Dadashri: Upon coming to Bhadran, everyone started telling me, “If this happened to people of our caste, then everyone would have an outcry. They would start quarreling. Here, they were not disturbed in the slightest.” This has happened in every occasion for us.
When there is no disturbance in the slightest in every occasion, that is called religion (dharma).
When is there the true beginning of religion? Saiyam.
The beginning is after there is saiyam.
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