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their children are very extravagant, but they just need to be patient. These extravagant prakrutis will eventually blossom. If one attains Dada's vision, there would be no clash between prakrutis and hence no quarrelling. Every prakruti will blossom so just be patient and wait. Instead, if a rose bush is blooming but not the plumeria, one will cut off the limbs of the plumeria tree. But if they are patient, they will enjoy the fragrance of all the flowers. Every prakruti will blossom. When people see a rose bush, but no roses on it, they will say this bush has thorns so just dig it up. No, the bush has thorns but along with the thorns, there must be some good qualities to it, such is the law of nature. So, be patient. There will blossom a rose amongst that bush of thorns.
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Some fathers hit their children. You fools! You cannot hit children, but you can tell them off provided they listen to you. Otherwise, in this Kaliyug, if you tell children off, they will get on the wrong path. You have to make the effort to make them turn around.
If there is any merit or worth in you (as a parent), then even a cactus bush will have fragrance! If a prakruti is bad in one aspect, it is good in another. This is the way it always is.
Its like this, if there were just a drummer in a band, how can you call it a band? We need a trumpet player, a trombone player, etc.; we need many different musicians for a band, only then will the band sound good. There is no telling when a prakruti will blossom or what kind of flowers it will yield; therefore you just have to be patient.
Every prakruti has different energies and deficiencies too. In the Satyug, if one person in a household had a temper, everyone else did too. Now in this Kaliyug, one person will be hot tempered, another mild, another will have a different personality altogether. That is why people cannot get along. The husband rises early in the morning, the wife gets up late and so
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the bickering will start early in the morning. This is how the worldly life becomes bitter. However, problems will be solved if one learns to adjust with different prakrutis.
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You can give compliments, you can say 'the meal is good', but do it in a dramatic manner. You can give compliments to make the other person feel good. But if there is too much salt in the kadhee and you say, "The kadhee is too salty", then it will hurt the other person's ego. It is acceptable for you to comment on the kadhee provided you know how to say it, but otherwise look for other solutions. Discretely add water to it then drink it. Now that you have this Gnan, drink whatever the world serves you. Tremendous energies exist within you. Prakruti will drink the salty kadhee, and You (the Self) are the observer. No one can act beyond the prakruti. Even before 'we' attained this Gnan, the knowledge and insight of how 'we' should adjust to situations was always at hand. All solutions would be present on the moment.
Because the world exists, everything else will be there for sure. Just because there are tiny stones in the wheat, does that mean one should not buy wheat? No, one should buy the wheat but pick out the stones and the grit and eat the wheat. Prakruti becomes stuck wherever it meets with obstacles. So, wherever the prakruti gets stuck, just focus Your (the Self) light there and become aware of what those obstacles are. You must see every mistake of yours. Lord Mahavir too used to observe only his own prakruti and what it was doing.
When you have to do something against your wishes, all you need to do is simply know that you have to undertake the task even though you do not wish to. In this situation it means the prakruti is 'riding' (controlling) you. You should not let prakruti ride over you. Prakruti was not meant to ride us, which is why you must make prakruti the 'horse' and then ride it and take the reins in your own hands. If the 'horse' does not move,
