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(vivek) in life interactions. No one should have complaints about our worldly interactions.
To be hasty in anything is a single mistake and not to have haste is double the mistake.
Which hole do you want to fall in?
Questioner: Neither.
Dadashri: Therefore, understand this matter. Is the train going to wait for you if you do not hurry? And if you hurry too much, you may cause an accident. Therefore, if one hurries, it is considered a single mistake and if one does not hurry, it is double the mistake. The Senses, Mind, Intellect, Ego and then
the Self Questioner: How can the mind remain still (sthir)?
Dadashri: Have you figured out what advantages there may be in trying to steady the mind?
Questioner: Peace is attained with that. Dadashri: Who has made the mind restless (asthir)? Questioner: We have.
Dadashri: Why did you make it restless? Did you do it deliberately? Not knowing where the benefit (hita) lies and where harm (ahita) lies for you, you have used your mind in every which way. If one had known what was beneficial (hita) and what was not beneficial for him (ahita), then one would have used the mind only for his benefit. Now the mind has gone out of control. Now it can only be made still when one attains the knowledge of benefit-harm (hita-ahita). Therefore when we give Gnan here, the mind settles down.
The mind is contained only with Gnan; it can never become
contained with anything else. It will remain still for an hour or so with concentration (ekagrata) or traditional meditation, but the stillness will break down again.
Questioner: What is the mind (mun)?
Dadashri: The mind is your karmic stock. Do shop owners not bring out their stock the whole year long? They do. That is how this mind is. This mind is the stock of your entire life. The stock of past life unfolds its effect (udaya) in this life and it gives you further 'instructions. During this moment, a new mind is being formed within, currently, the old mind is discharging and a new one is forming.
Questioner: How can one know how the new mind is being formed, charged, and the old one is being discharged?
Dadashri: When a thought arises in the mind, you become engrossed or one with it (tanmayakar); that is not the energy of the Self. There is weakness within and that is why 'it,' the non-Self or the self, becomes engrossed. This happens because of ignorance (agnanta). The original Soul, the Self, is not like that; the Self has infinite energy and infinite knowledge. But the interfering is due to the self with the belief, 'I am Chandulal (pratishthit atma). Hence when one becomes the body and the mind (tanmayakar), new karma is charged.
Those who are Self-realized will not become tanmayakar when thoughts arise. So when the time comes, the mind will discharge but a new karma will not charge.
Questioner: But here, the engrossment occurs automatically.
Dadashri: Yes, it happens automatically, and that is the illusion (bhranti)! There is no true spiritual effort (purusharth) of the self here. Until one becomes a purush, the Self, there is no true spiritual effort (purusharth) whatsoever. It is your
