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Dadashri: If you are out walking and someone says to you, You don't have to follow this Dada, things will be fine. You are needlessly creating difficulties for yourself.' He may use a few words that you do not appreciate, and so you make a intense mental note that, 'Why did I have to meet such a worthless person?' Otherwise one would make a note of something that is likes. So people make intense mental notes of things they do not like as well as things they do like.
The slightest dislike or repulsion arises and one will make an intense mental note of it. If you do not make nondha of your dislikes, you will achieve moksha. If you do not make a note when someone does you wrong, you will achieve moksha. That is the step to moksha and it is the same step that one uses to go down. The steps that take you up is the same step you takes you down,
Authority to give opinion? (!)
Questioner: What is wrong in giving an opinion abhipraya about something exactly the way it is, if we do not have a negative intent behind it?
Dadashri: Do you have any authority to say it as it is? You do not have that vision. You cannot say anything without the exact vision. The word opinion is completely unnecessary for You. You should have only one opinion and that is, 'There the Self and five other eternal elements. There is no other opinion. That is how it should be.
Opinions means there is some attachment raag or abhorrence dwesh, otherwise opinions will not be there. Opinions are formed when there is like and dislike.
If you did not like the tea you drank, you will give an opinion that the tea was not good. So you cannot refrain from criticizing the tea. Not only that, but you will also make an intense mental note of it. And in doing so, you also criticize the one who made the tea. It is because you have criticized tea, that you are now ‘married to it. So are you likely to stop drinking tea? No. It is better to have less attachment to anything. I am not asking you to let go of the tea, the existing attachments that you have. I am simply saying 'no' to opinions abhipraya and the intense mental note nondha making.
