Aptavani 06

SR No.: 007537
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation
Publication Year: 2008
Total Pages: 161
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Akram Vigyan
File Size: 25 KB

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What is an Intelligent Person Like?
Questioner: Who can be called intelligent?
Dadashri: The one who conducts his affairs in a manner with the least clash in the home, in business or anywhere else is called an intelligent person.
Otherwise, doing 'panditai' (the application of the intellectual approach of scholars) to make the other person happy is a form of "over-wiseness,' meaning it is excessive use of the intellect. Intellect should be used to help the other person.
If one drinks tea after eating a sweet desert and then complains that there is no sugar in the tea, how can such a one be called intelligent? And even if there is really no sugar in the tea, there is no reason to fuss and make a scene. Why would one want to yell and scare everyone at home over just a cup of tea worth a quarter?
The one with intellect is the one who uses his intellect in such a way that no one will experience any stress on his account. If anyone ever experiences any stress and fear on his account, then that intellect is wicked. Such wicked intellect binds terrible demerit karma (paap). Therefore, one needs to understand the role of intellect, does one not?
What good is the intellect that does not help anyone at home and causes differences of opinion?
And a loss that occurs in business is the nature of doing business, but a mistake must not occur in the process of mending
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the business. What do you think?
Questioner: That is right.
Dadashri: 'We' are here to clarify things and not to make you agree with us.
Questioner: If deceit (kapat) is being employed at home, or outside, then language that scares and petrifies has to be used, is that not so?
Dadashri: If your threats stop others from being deceitful, then go ahead and do so. But what is the point in scaring them if deceit remains forever? You should be thrown in jail for scaring them when you do not know how to scare them. Why do you do it?
them?
Questioner: What should I do if I am not to threaten
Dadashri: You have to see how they can improve. Questioner: It is natural to get angry with someone who is being deceitful towards us, is it not?
Dadashri: If the other person's deceit leaves by you getting angry at him five times, then it is all right; and if it does not, then you are to be thrown in jail. He is not getting cured with this medicine and, on the contrary, you are killing him by making him drink such medicine!
Questioner: What should we do if that person continues to do the same thing?
Dadashri: Your approach is harmful. This is not the way to do it. It is one kind of egoism. To believe, 'I can improve him this way or that way,' is egoism. What 'we' are trying to convey is that you should be the one to improve first. You are the only one who is spoiled. He is already improved. The way you are harassing all these people by frightening them is not becoming of you.