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Living with Harmony The following chapters of the book are also helpful for the seeker who has not been able to meet the Gnani Purush for the Gnan Vidhi.
ADJUST EVERYWHERE
Digest This Phrase Incorporate this phrase “Adjust Everywhere” in your life and peace will take hold. You will be doomed if you fail to adjust in this frightful time of Kaliyug (current era of the time cycle characterized by lack of unity in thought, speech and acts).
If you do not learn anything else in the worldly life it does not matter, but learning to adjust is a necessity. You will sail through all difficulties in life if you adjust to anyone who misadjusts with you. A person who knows how to adjust with others does not suffer. Adjust everywhere. Adjustment with each and every person is the highest religion. There are people with different personalities (prakrutis, characteristics, tendencies, etc.) in our time, so how can you get along without adjusting?
The ice cream does not tell you to run away from it. Do not eat it if you do not want it. The older folks keep on resenting it. All these differences in opinion are because of the changing times. These youngsters act according to the times.
Therefore, one must adjust according to the times. If your son comes home wearing a new kind of hat, don't ask him in
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