Distress (vyakudta) gives rise to all the unhappiness, and all unhappiness is destroyed by attaining the distress-free (nirakudta) state from the Gnani Purush (the Enlightened One).

There is no place or circumstance in this world that can depress You (the Self).

There cannot be any time, situation or circumstance that can depress You (the Self).

Everything is mandatory in the world. Dying is mandatory, and being born is mandatory. So discover that which is of your own volition.

If you want to be free, then make an effort to know ‘this’ (what is mandatory and what is not); otherwise, whatever it is, it is ‘correct’.

When does the ‘voluntary’ part (of the Self) arise? It is when one attains the awareness of [the answer to], ‘Who am I?

I am Chandubhai’ (name used by Dadashri to refer to the relative self) is indeed an illusion, and the karma charges because of this illusion. When does the charging of new karma stop? It happens when one attains exact realization of ‘who I am’.

When one has not known anything but becomes infected with the ‘disease of knowing’; he is a grave diseased person. What is the result of knowing? One stops playing with the ‘tops’ [living as the relative-self] and starts playing with the Self [lives in the realm of the Self, The Soul]. The diseased one simply does the ego of knowing.

Ego means to live in an imaginary form (illusionary form) outside of one’s own real Self.