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an intense mental note that Chandulal went to a hotel, whose side am I on? On the side of the pudgal. There is grave danger in making a nondha.
Questioner: How is an intense mental note of, “This soup is very salty' taken within?
Dadashri: Such an intense mental note, 'the soup is salty, immediately places the blame on the doer, the person who made it. The nondha sees the other person as a doer and opinion sees the item only.
You need awareness, not an intense mental note
Questioner: In short, the machinery of intense mental note will not remain if there is awareness jagruti.
Dadashri: It will not remain. The problem lies in the awareness becoming dim. Bring on the awareness, and not keep any intense mental note, if one does this, then one becomes aware by that much. The other method for increasing awareness is by watching 'us'. A person may say anything to this ‘Dadaji' and yet one will not see a single change in expression on the face. Why is that? Hey you! What kind of results are you looking for here? 'We have not written an assay on it, an essay starts from a note, and for a note you need a notebook, and we never even keep a note! Many such people come and go. Regardless of what 'we' tell them on their face, that is not what 'we' believe. He is a Shuddhatma. He is not at all at fault nirdosh! He is totally faultless on the outside and within he is a Shuddhatma. That is ‘our vision when 'we' speak. As it is, this is our colloquial Patidar language and language cannot go away, can it? However, 'we' do not keep a note.
So all this has to be understood. Making intense mental notes nondha is what causes more damage. Especially these vaniks (those who make a living through their speech and intellect, mostly businessman in India), they keep a notebook of intense mental notes. Women also keep such large notebooks. 'Dad said this and mom was saying this.' So everyone keeps notes; they will not let go of these notebooks. Before taking Gnan, whatever notebooks thay had, they are still keeping it. They are letting it go. They have given up everything else.
Where there is an intense mental note there is the sting
