Aptavani 06

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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Worldly interactions (vyavahar) for You will not present much difficulty, once You deal with the vyavahar that unfolds for You. Then whatever discharging intent is presenting as desire (bhavna), it will be there, ready and waiting for you ahead of time. 'We' (the Gnani and the fully enlightened Lord within) had gone to Lake Vihar for a visit. There I had a new kind of thought, "There are one hundred mahatmas here - fifty women and fifty men. It would be so nice if they did Mataji's garba (devotional folk dance dedicated to the Goddess Amba).' With this thought, the moment I turned around they all stood up and started doing garba! Now I had not asked anyone and yet it happened. So this is what happens. Your thoughts will not go to waste, your words will not be wasted. What is happening to people nowadays? Nothing 'grows or blossoms' for them. Their speech does not grow, their thoughts do not grow and neither does their conduct. One will make three trips to collect on a loan he made, but his debtor will never be there. Finally, when he does meet the debtor, the debtor will become aggravated at him.
This path is such that your debtor will come to your home to return your money! If you make seven or so trips to collect your money without success, and then, when you finally meet him, he tells you to come back in a month's time; if at that time there is no change within you (i.e., you do not get aggravated), then the money will come to your home!
Internal changes and reactions (effects - parinaam) do occur within you, do they not? Changes and reactions like, 'He is a useless person. He has no sense. He wasted my trip.' Such are the changes that occur within you. Therefore, when you go to him again to collect your money, he will curse you. No changes take place within 'us,' so then where is the problem? When changes occur within, then initially, even if the other person was not going to get upset and become obstinate, he will!
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The Internal Evidences Create the Result
Questioner: Does that mean we are the ones who ruin
everything?
Dadashri: We are verily the ones who ruin that which is ours. Whatever obstacles we encounter, we have created them for sure. What is the way to improve a person who is obstinate and objectionable? No matter how much pain (dukh) a person causes you, if you do not harbor any negative feelings for him, then that is the best way to improve him. In that way he will improve and things will improve for you too. But worldly people will not refrain from having negative thoughts about such a person. We the mahatmas are told to 'deal with equanimity'; 'with equanimity' means we should not have any kind of thoughts about him.
If pratikraman (ask for forgiveness from the pure Soul of the one you have 'hurt,' coupled with remorse of the wrongdoing) is done for a tiger, even the tiger will do what you tell him. There is no difference between a tiger and a human. The difference lies in your vibrations (spandan); that has an affect. As long as you have in your mind the awareness that the tiger is a violent animal,' then it will be violent. And if you have the awareness that the tiger is a Shuddhatma (pure Soul), then it is Shuddhatma for sure. Everything is possible.
When you throw a ball, by its intrinsic nature (swabhav) it will stop bouncing. That is its natural (sahaj) attribute. This is where the whole world's efforts are wasted; people try to stop or change the effects, while the causes continue. Thus the cycle of a seed from the tree, and a tree from the seed, continues. Nothing is attained by cutting off the leaves or the branches of the tree. The work is done only if the tree is removed along with its roots. Here, in Akram Vignan, we place a 'medicine' in the taproot, the main root system; thereafter, the entire tree dries up and dies.