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for you too. Now, you are done with it, you have nothing to do with it anymore. But now, you are seeing it again through the link (tanto) that you have maintained, and are bringing back the fruition (udaya) of the very karma that has passed and creating an entanglement. Now, that other person is in some other karma all together at this time. Is this not worth understanding? This is very subtle.
There is no closure in this matter of keeping a link (tanto) is there? And it is verily those who keep such links (tantos) that look for closure and justice! Where and how can all this end?
So if someone were to insult 'us' yesterday and 'we' see him again today, he would appear as a new person to 'us'; and he is new indeed. Not seeing this is verily our own mistake. We are seeing him in the older form. He is indeed in the new form. One karma is over, and therefore now he is in another karma. Will he be in a new karma or will he be in the same old karma?
Questioner: He will be in another karma.
Dadashri: And we are still in the same old karma. Now how much garbage is that? Do you ever make such mistakes? Do you keep intense mental notes?
Questioner: I had a habit of making intense mental notes, but I do not have it anymore.
Dadashri: So you do not do it anymore, do you? Why waste a notebook unnecessarily? People keep notebooks.
One man tells this person, sitting here, 'You dance according to your prakruti. You are like a top. But even then, 'we' did not make a note of it. Later, 'we' scolded him, 'What kind of a man are you? How can you say that to someone like her?' Yes, she did not make a note of it either. 'We do not make notes. 'We will tell the person directly to his face but then
'we' will not make a note of it. It is a grave mistake to make intense mental notes.
Therefore, pay no attention to anyone, nor complain about anyone, do nothing. If someone has insulted you, even then you do not have to come complaining to me or seek justice. Whatever happens is correct, is that not justice? There is no question about it, is there? That is how this Vignan (science) is; it is exact and clear. The likes and dislikes make one take
nondha Questioner: Can you give an example how an intense mental note (nondha) is made?
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 an intense mental note of, 'Why did I have to meet such a worthless person?' Otherwise one would make a note of something that he likes. So people make intense mental notes of things they do not like as well as things they do like.
The slightest dislike 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 that 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
