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experienced. He tells us to follow this same path in order to be liberated from the world.
People indulge and take shelter in amusing events in order to become free from pain and unhappiness and, by doing so, they undertake new karmic risks. Gnanis never waste the energy of the Self in this way. They settle them with equanimity.
Even if someone uses abusive language against the Gnani Purush, the Gnani tells him, 'There is no problem here, my friend. You must continue to come here to satsang (gathering of Self-realized beings); someday there will be a solution for you.' What wonderful grace and equanimity!
This world has never been unjust, even for a moment. The worldly courts may do injustice; it is justice if an innocent person is hanged and it is also justice when a guilty person is acquitted. Therefore, there is no wisdom in being dubious or questioning anything in this world. There is no one bom in this world that can bother you, and if there is, then even if you plan a million strategies, none will be effective in avoiding him. Therefore, let everything be and go towards the Self.
From which type of knowledge can you have suspicions about someone? Even though you may have witnessed something with your own eyes, does it not turn out to be false? There can never be a solution for suspicions. There can be a solution for the truth! Where one does not have suspicion is where suspicion will be. Where one has trust is verily the place there are doubts. Where he has suspicion, there is usually nothing to suspect. Once one has the knowledge of a snake entering his room, his doubts about the snake will not go away until he has knowledge of it leaving the room. Relying on the science given by the Gnani Purush will make one doubt free.
That which comes into our memory is a complaint against us. So we should repeatedly do repentance and apology
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(pratikraman), as shown by the Gnani Purush, and clear it away.
If we caused pain to someone and if that person is suffering from that pain here in this world, is it possible for us to attain final liberation? The one who is in pain will inflict pain upon others. Can someone in pain attain final liberation? Therefore, get up - wake up and come to a decision that, 'From today onward I don't want to cause any hurt whatsoever to any living being in this world.' Then You will see final liberation coming toward you. If others give you pain, You are not to see that. Others have that freedom. How can we take away their freedom?
On the one hand, one wants to be declared free of guilt in the court of the world and on the other hand, one wants to continue his claim of, 'Why did he do this to me? Why did he say that to me?' How can anyone become free this way? And if such a claim is made inadvertently, it should be withdrawn, of course, by doing pratikraman!
Your interactions with your wife are to be completed by seeing the supreme Soul in her and not by becoming an ascetic (by renouncing the worldly life). Interactions of the worldly life are simply worldly in nature, but to see the pure Self in her is really the pure awareness of the Self. This is shuddha upayog.
Don't you think the innumerable mistakes that one continues to commit are caught in the Gnani's vision? Of course, they are caught in his vision; however, his awareness is only on the Self within us. Therefore, there is no result of attachmentabhorrence (raag-dwesh) in the Gnani.
Our internal results from the effects of karma change, and that is why the internal results in others are disrupted and change. The Gnani's internal effects (results) never change under any circumstances.
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