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him. What kind of shadow does 'our' (Dadashri's) mind have on others? Even if a person is completely stupid, he will become wise! If you feel, 'I do not like Ramesh,' in your mind, then dislike will arise within you as soon as Ramesh walks into the room. A shadow (chhaya) of your feeling, its image, falls on his mind. He will immediately get a "picture within about what is going on within you. This result (parinaam) within you will confuse and entangle him! He may not know what is happening, yet he is bothered from within. Therefore, you should get rid of the opinions. When you wash off all your opinions, then you are free.
Opinions have been formed through association with the worldly people (loksangnya) which have to be destroyed through the Gnani's association (sangnya), through the knowledge and association with the Gnani. The biggest of all opinions, 'I am the doer,' is destroyed by the Gnani Purush the day he gives you Gnan. All other smaller and many other opinions are formed according to each individual's relative-self (prakruti). Some of these have very strong opinions and that is called atkan (blockade). Opinions like, 'One has to do it this way!' are dense opinions and if they remain, they need to be eradicated for the total clearance of the path of the vitarag (without false belief; without attachment-abhorrence; without raag-dwesh).
When Nagindas enters the room, one may immediately feel a dislike (abhaav) towards him. Why is that? It is because he has formed an opinion that "Nagindas is a useless man.' Even if Nagindas has come to tell him something beneficial, he will ignore him. Will we not have to remove all such opinions that have been formed for anyone?
Therefore, you should not have any kind of opinions. You should get rid of all the negative opinions you have formed towards others. These are all unnecessary opinions formed out of misunderstanding.
If someone were to ask, "Is his relative-self (prakruti) going to change if we remove our opinion about him?' I would tell him, 'It does not matter if his prakruti does not change: what do you have to do with it?' He will then say, 'But we will still have clashes with him, will we not?' and I would tell him, 'No, whatever specific parinaam (internal result and state) towards that person there is within you, such will be the parinaam within him.' Yes, when you get rid of your opinion about him and talk to him courteously, then he will respond to you in the same way too. Then, at that time, you will not see his prakruti.
Therefore, your mind will cast a shadow (chhaya) over
However, we do not have opinions about everyone. If someone steals every day, why do you have to form an opinion, *He is a thief"? He steals due to the effect of his karma, and the person he steals from is also because of the effect of that person's karma. How does that have anything to do with you? But when you call him a thief, is that not an opinion? And really speaking, is he not the Self?
The Lord Mahavir saw everyone as without mistakes (nirdosh). He never saw anyone at fault. And when your vision becomes so pure, you too will have an environment which is clean and clear. Then this world will appear like a garden. In reality, people do not have bad attributes. One forms an opinion about others within, and thus gets bound. 'We' may talk about anyone but 'we do not have any opinions of, 'He is like this or like that,' at all!
You will also experience (anubhav) that since you got rid of your opinion about this man, this change has occurred within him. What do you have to do in order to change your opinion? For the opinion, "This man is a thief,' you have to say, 'This man is honest.' You have to say, 'I had formed a wrong opinion about him. I am now letting go of that opinion. It is a wrong opinion...it is wrong. Keep repeating that your opinion is wrong,
