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Aptavani-5
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Aptavani-5
Such weapons should never be created. If someone were to put poison in Mumbai's ponds and kill a lot of people; that is not considered use of buddhi.
mechanical intellect verily is causing it to be above normal. The use of the external intellect (worldly use of intellect) should be limited to the point of necessity. This should be the basis for using the intellect. For example, it becomes harmful when one uses it excessively, in instances where one keeps questioning everything like 'why is it like this?' and 'what is that all about? when it is not pertinent to one's needs.
Questioner: Is it not necessary for man to protect himself?
Dadashri: They all do that, do they not! No one dies deliberately.
Questioner: Does man not need the atom bomb to protect himself?
Dadashri: These are unnecessary problems, which have been created. There are foreign countries with such developments. They even have telephone facilities every sixty-eight miles on highways. Then people question what they should do if they get a flat tire a few miles away from the next phone! So they want phones there too so that they do not have to walk.
Questioner: So, do they want more facilities than the ones they already have?
Dadashri: They have turned facilities into difficulties. It became a difficulty when things went beyond the norm.
Questioner: When a man uses his intellect (buddhi) to protect himself it is considered normal, is it not? Is building an atom bomb not for protection?
Questioner: Is that considered durbuddhi (bad intellect)?
Dadashri: It is infinitely worse than bad intellect. It is total destruction or ruin.
Questioner: I want to know the limit of the mechanical intellect. I want to know the starting point of the 'inner intellect and its limit.
Dadashri: What will you do with this knowledge? Questioner: I want to know how much intellect I have.
Dadashri: All this is nothing but your 'outer' intellect. If you had 'inner intellect, it would quickly take you towards this side the side of spirituality, the side of the Self): you would adjust with Me right away. You yourself would ask me, 'Do something in order to secure a safe side for me. Do something for my own independence. I do not like this dependency.'
Dependency This is nothing but dependency! Constant dependency (parvashta)! The animals have dependency and so do humans. How can we afford to be this way? You have a problem even when you have a headache, you have a problem when your legs hurt, your eyes hurt, your teeth hurt. How can you live with such tremendous suffering?
Do you understand a little bit about dependency? Questioner: Yes. Dadashri: Have you ever experienced it? Questioner: Yes Dadashri: Do you like it?
Dadashri: That is not called protection. What happens if the other person makes a bomb too? How much fear will that create? This is all done to intimidate others. There is no need for resorting to protection in this manner. Nature is protecting in its own way. There is no need for causing unnecessary problems.
