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Questioner: The same words are spoken to five different people, but each person is hurt to a different degree. What can I do about that?
Dadashri: You should have the awareness and then speak. Do your best according to your understanding. There is no solution otherwise. Now, even when 'Chandubhai' is talking justly, the other person may still be hurt. What can one do then? What is the solution? This happens only with some individuals (with whom you have karmic account), not with everyone. So here, if there are no counter-attacks, only then will your fireworks' stop. Otherwise, if one person sets off sparks, sparks will fly from you too, even if you do not wish them to. So the sparks will cease only if everyone decides that they want to stop them, and not otherwise.
Questioner: Does the new code give its effect only in the next life or can it give effect in this life too?
Dadashri: Yes, a 'beautiful' code is bound to come!
Questioner: So does one have to attain a new body for the new code? Instead, what I want is that 'no code be recorded.'
Dadashri: This is for just one life. You are not going to have codes like these later on. Those who do not have foul language today have not changed the code, and those who have foul language have changed the code, so their speech will change. Therefore, those who have changed it have taken note, whereas those who have not have missed out. When someone asks me, 'Dada, when will my speech improve?' ... from that can we not deduce that he is changing the code?
Questioner: The one who wants liberation (moksha) should not record any code, should he? What should one do for that?
Dadashri: You will not have any difficulty on your path to moksha. Whatever codes are needed to go to moksha will arise in your next life. Now, whatever stock' you accumulate by asking me, you will get exactly that code in the next life. You still have one more life, do you not?
Questioner: What are the codes of a Tirthankara's speech like?
Dadashri: They have decided on such a code that, 'Not a single living being be hurt to the slightest extent, by my speech. Definitely not only hurt any living being but also not hurt the foundation of any living being; not even that of a tree!' Such codes occur only to the enlightened, fully liberated beings (Tirthankars).
Questioner: What kind of awareness should be there when speaking?
Dadashri: The awareness of, 'Who will be listening and how will he or she be affected by these words?
Dadashri: What would happen if a potter were to place his earthenware to bake in a kiln and then remove them prematurely within an hour?
Your acceptance of, 'The next life will be filled with everything working well,' is the reason why you have faith in me and keep listening to me for hours on end. In this life, your speech, which is the result of taped codes from your past life, will be exhausted and then your speech will not be hurtful anymore.
Questioner: So then, will one become silent (maun)?
Dadashri: Yes, silence will be there. By silence it does not mean a silence where no words will be uttered; silence means only that speech which is necessary for basic worldly interactions will come forth. That which was filled into the tank' will be emptied for sure.
