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You should also know how to adjust at home. What will your family say if you go home late from satsang? They will tell you, 'Should you not come home on time at least?' So what is wrong with going home early? Bullocks have to be proded with a nail at the end of a stick, to make them walk, instead would it not be better for them to walk without being prodded? Otherwise, the farmer will poke the bullock and it will have to start walking. The bullock is going to walk anyway. Have you ever seen this? They dig the the nail into the bullock to make him walk. What can the poor dumb animal say? Whom would it complain to?
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If you were to prod people, other people will come to their rescue. But to whom can the poor animal complain? Now why do these animals have to suffer this way? Their suffering is the result of too much complaining and accusations in their past life. When they had the energy to do anything, they kept complaining and now that they have no energy, they simply have to suffer everything silently. So now you simply have to do 'plus-minus' i.e. adjust to everything. Instead why not stop complaining in the first place? It is only when you complain that you become the accused. You should be neither the accuser nor the accused. Credit your karmic account with any abuse other people give you. Do not become a complainer. What do you think? Is it better to be a complainer? Then what is wrong with adjusting from the beginning?
Coming down to level of others
Questioner: We have to deal with many who are not at the same level as ourself and so often it does not work.
Dadashri: It will not work but you have to adjust and that is why I have told you do settle with equanimity.
You can make your bright light dimmer, but you cannot make a dim light brighter. Therefore dim your bright light and then deal with the other person. When your light increases do you adjust so that it 'fits the person you are dealing with? You should make it fit that way. You have endless energy; you have to make it fit this way. Take Dada's name and say, 'Dada, help me make it fit,' and it will happen immediately. Besides you already have decided with your inner intent that you do not want to hurt anyone even
