Aptavani 09

SR No.: 007513
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gnani Purush Dadashri
Publisher: Gnani Purush Dadashri
Publication Year: 2007
Total Pages: 515
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Akram Vigyan
File Size: 8 MB

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Even 'we' have never said 'What do I care? Even being a Gnani Purush, 'we' cannot say that, in any situation. 'We cannot say that even when someone comes here under any kind of circumstances.
One woman in our extended family had passed away and her son came to inform me. He tells me, 'I had to come here to give you the news personally.' I told him, 'Son, you inform me now and it is very late in the day, is it not?' So he told me, 'No Dada. You do not have to come home.' Even so I still went to his home for a few minutes, came home and also took a bath afterwards (a normal tradition). So, 'What do I care?' is not acceptable in the worldly life. The worldly interations vyavahar must be carried out as worldly interactions are meant to be. You are not going to lose your soul by doing so.
It is the gravest mistake to say, 'What do I care? These words are never to be found in 'our' dictionary at all. These words cannot be uttered in your home, outside or here in the satsang. "What do I care?' is this something one should even utter? If one does, that ego will never go away. That ego becomes solid. Then it will never leave. It will not break, ever.
People make this statement, 'what do I care?', even when it involves their sister, their brother or their mother.
Questioner: What does this “What do I care?' towards anyone indicate?
Dadashri: Worthlessness ! 'What do I care? how can anyone even utter such a statement? You have taken birth in their home and you say 'What do I care?' It is a grave fault. One must never say this. Not only can you not say this in your own home but you cannot say it elsewhere either. These are all grave faults.
Questioner: What kind of a fault is it?
Dadashri: It is not even the correct paper so what is the point of looking for a mistake when the paper is not correct one in the first place? We can consider the mistakes and faults if the paper is correct, but when one says 'What do I care?', the paper is not correct; it is wrong, it is one hundred percent wrong!