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there even be such a book? There can be a notebook only if you make a mental note. Now you must throw away your mental notes. They are not worth keeping. Give away your notebook to some other businessman. It is not something worth keeping
Questioner: When someone makes an intense mental note, 'You said this to me and you said that, then that love is broken.
Dadashri: Yes, but one cannot refrain from making an intense mental note. Would even the wife not do that? Will your wife not be doing that?
Questioner: Dada everyone does it, but can we not erase it through Gnan and pratikraman?
Dadashri: No matter how much you try to erase it, you will not succeed. Once you make an intense mental note (nondha), you cannot get rid of it by attempting to erase it. The intense mental note will weaken a little but one cannot refrain from making a comment, can one? Whatever this gentleman here may do, or whatever changes may occur in you, 'we' will not make any note. Therefore, there is no interference or its effects from 'us' at all. Have you ever seen Dada making a note about you?
Questioner: Never. Dadashri: Yes, there is no note on anyone. Questioner: So is that pure love?
Dadashri: Yes, it is pure love. So you will never be unloved by us, you will always be dear to 'us'. 'We have no concem with what you said to 'us' two days ago. If 'we' keep mental notes, then 'we' would have problems, right? 'We' understand that your weakness has not gone away and so mistakes are bound to occur.
Questioner: But I have a habit of making intense mental notes.
Dadashri: That habit will now go down now that you have heard this satsang. Do you not understand all this? From the moment you hear this, you will start making fewer notes. You keep an intense mental note of your wife too, do you not?
Questioner: Yes.
Dadashri: The 'wife' whom you call your own! You keep a note even about her? And she does the same about you. If you say something to her, she will say to herself, 'Wait till I have my moment.' That is not true love; it is aasakti (infatuation). True love will lessen or change. 'Our love is true love. 'We never make a note of anything.
Questioner: With your grace (krupa) this can happen fast
Dadashri: 'Our grace and blessing is always there but what can anyone do when you do not want to get rid of it yourself? "My wife did this, she did that,' do you not do the same, so why are you accusing your wife? She will make an intense mental note when you make an intense mental note. 'We' do not make a note of anyone and so no one makes a note of 'us'. They do not make a note even when 'we' scold them. Why do you have to make a note when 'we' have stopped doing so? Is your wife going to leave you alone when you make notes of her? It is good that this man here is not married, otherwise would he not start making notes of his wife? 'We never make any note about anyone. Also 'we' do not talk about one person to another.
Destroy mistakes scientifically Questioner: Dada what is the reason behind one making intense mental notes?
Dadashri: One does not realize the harm it causes and
