Aptavani 06

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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Dadashri: Yes, that is true. There is nothing wrong when sangharshan occurs, but I am telling you to get rid of the inner intent (bhaav) of, 'I want to enter into a conflict.' When You do not have inner intent of getting into conflict, even if 'Chandulal' (the relative-self) gets into conflict, so be it. Our vision should not be obstructed.
If the body gets hurt from colliding with someone, it will heal with treatment, but who will remove the wounds in the mind and the buddhi that gharshan and sangharshan creates? They will not go away for thousands of lifetimes!
The whole world is immersed in conflict (gharshan) and reaction to conflict (sangharshan). On the day of Diwali, the festival of lights, everyone decides they do not want any conflict for that day. Everyone wears good clothes and gets wonderful food to eat; everything is good that day. Wherever you go, people welcome you in their homes, such is the love they show. Love will be present if there is no sangharshan. There is no need to look at right or wrong. Worldly intellect (buddhi) will definitely be useful in worldly interactions, and it is already adjusted to be that way; it is the extra and excessive buddhi that causes a reaction to conflicts (sangharshan).
Questioner: Is the cause of all conflicts the vast difference between one karmic layer and another layer?
Dadashri: Conflict is really a progression! The more trouble one goes through, the more conflict he experiences, and the more he finds a way to go higher. Without conflict, he will remain where he is. People are looking for conflict.
Questioner: Can one progress if he goes around looking for conflict, believing conflict is necessary for progress?
Dadashri: But one does not look for it with such an understanding. God is not the one taking you higher, conflict is. Conflict can take one higher to a certain level; thereafter, his work will only be completed when he meets a Gnani. Conflict occurs naturally, just like the riverbed stones that become smooth through collision in the river.
Questioner: What is the difference between conflict (gharshan) and reaction to conflict (sangharshan)?
Dadashri: When non-living things, inanimate objects, collide, it is called gharshan and when living beings collide, it is called sangharshan.
Questioner: Does sangharshan obstruct and suffocate the energy of the Self?
Questioner: Does one become heartless and callous (adataa) because of excessive conflict?
Dadashri: One will become insensitive and callous and the energies will also drain away. It is because of this that one does not see the infinite energy within. There is infinite energy but it leaves due to conflict. Lord Mahavir did not experience even a single conflict from the time he was born right up until the very end. And as far as we are concerned, about fifty thousand to a hundred thousand conflicts would be acceptable but what about the millions that have occurred? At least twenty to twentyfive conflicts occur in a day. Even when you simply open your eyes to look at someone, if you experience negative feelings within, that is gharshan/conflict. What would happen if you have conflict with this wall?
Questioner: Our head will break!
Dadashri: But that is non-living jada)! What happens when you have conflict with that which is the living (chetan)? A man can go to liberation (moksha) only if there is absence of conflict (absence of gharshan) in his life. If one learns not to have any conflict with anyone, then he does not need a guru for moksha. He will go straight to moksha within one or two lifetimes. 'I do not want any conflict!'; if this intent becomes