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such records are playing everywhere. A Gnani sees the Self within all as pure. Everyone is entrapped in this prison of the world so what can they do? What can anyone do being caught up in this trap of conflicts? What kind of trap is this? Everyone in a household will gang up on one person. Just think of the plight of that poor fellow when there is a war within the four walls of his home. He does not even sleep in peace. Out of fear of displeasing people at home, he even turns down an invitation from a friend to a dinner. Every moment there is misery he cannot escape and he has to endure it. Even at home he has to live in a hostile environment. Just look at the effects of karma! It is his own karma. The world is such that there is no escape from suffering.
One man told me that he got married but does not like his wife.
The destruction of conflict is one of the most important components of liberation. Bliss follows the destruction of conflict. You may not have Gnan but when can you say you have religion at home? It is when you tolerate any kind of environment and do not add fuel to the fire of conflict at home, then you are considered a noble man. God lives in such a house. Everything gets destroyed wherever there is conflict. God will not reside in a home where conflicts occur and Laxmiji, the Goddess of wealth too would leave.
Conflicts are not allowed to occur in a religious household and if once in a while a conflict does occur, it is confined within the four walls of the home and everyone will keep awareness that it does not occur again.
What pleases Goddess Laxmi is compliance of her laws: complete honesty and intention of returning whatever is borrowed. How can Laxmiji be pleased when you worship her but also break her laws?
Dadashri : Why, what is the reason for not liking her?
Questioner : She is lame. She limps a little when she walks.
Dadashri : Does your wife like you or not?
Questioner: I certainly am likeable. I am good looking, educated, I have a good income and I do not have a physical deformity.
Dadashri : Then the fault is yours. What did you do wrong to deserve a lame wife like her and what kind of merit karma did she have to deserve a good husband like you?
What you reap is what you had sowed so why blame others for your misfortune? Now go and endure your own mistakes and do not repeat the same mistake again. The man understood all this and his life, which was on the brink of a breakdown started to mend.
The Lord says that there is perpetuation of the worldly life as long as the mind is full of conflicts. There is liberation when the mind becomes free of all conflicts, such a mind will always be at peace.
Even this small child is comforted by the coolness of my words; he too can tell the difference between cool water and boiling water. When husband and wife quarrel at home, the child watches them and listens to the words being exchanged and analyzes who is at fault. He feels helpless because he knows that he is too young to do anything but he makes up his mind to take care of matters when he grows up. A child can understand angry eyes and peaceful eyes.
The time of conflict passes one way or another, but during that time people cause bondage for infinite life cycles. The seeds
