Aptavani 09

Author(s): Gnani Purush Dadashri
Publisher: Gnani Purush Dadashri

Page 58

Dadashri: 'We can see it all. Turn this way and immediately that is seen, and therefore 'we' speak. If 'we' see anything beneficial, then 'we' will say it. Why would 'we' try to commit anything to memory? We' continue to see all the way back to when I was young. 'We can see all the phases... it was like this...it was like that... 'we' used to enter the classroom only after the schoolbell had rung, 'we' can see all that. The teacher used to get very upset. He could not say anything but he would be aggravated from within.
Questioner: Why did you go in only after the bell?
Dadashri: It was a kind of a kind of a show-off. The mind had that inner energy khumari! I suffered because I did not striaighten up, no? A straight person would go and sit in the class before the bell.
Questioner: Is showing-off a wrong path?
Dadashri: It is a wrong path indeed. This fellow (A. M. Patel - Dadashri's relative self) would come into the classroom after the bell had rung; the teacher would be already in the class. It is acceptable for the teacher to be late but as a rule should the students not be in time? This is the obstinacy. On top, he would say, 'Who does the teacher think he is?'. Hey you! Look here! Do you want to learn from the school or do you want a confrontation? He would reply, 'No, first is the confrontation'. That is called looking for a confrontation.
Questioner: So the teacher could not say anything to you?
Dadashri: He could and yet he would not; he dare not because he was afraid of the retaliation of being beaten up outside the school.
Questioner: Dada, were you so naughty?
Dadashri: Yes, mischievous indeed. The entire baggage was nothing but that of a troublemaker and obstinacy.
Questioner: And amidst all that such Gnan expressed! That is great.