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Aptavani-9
[3] Commonsense : Welding
Deficiency in commonsense This speech is without attachment or abhorrence. It is vitarag speech. If a person hears, beholds and absorbs this speech he will attain salvation. Holding and absorbing this speech will cleanse all the diseases within. It will flush out all the bad attributes and their parmanus (atoms).
I am giving you the essence of all the talks, this is the complete and ultimate extract. This is the essence of my experiences. Otherwise, do you think I can write in a book 'nobody has commonsense today'? If people read this, they would immediately come here to complain that they do have commonsense. If someone were to come to me and tell me so, I would tell him, 'Come let's see. I will come to your house and stay with you for fifteen days.' People think they have commonsense!
If I do not say this people will arrogantly walk around thinking there is no one like them around.
'Everywhere applicable' What is commonsense? It is that which is "everywhere applicable, theoretical as well as practical". I have not seen such commonsense in anyone. Commonsense is such a key that it is applicable anywhere, it can unlock even the 'rustiest of locks' (solve the most difficult of problems). Otherwise, even a new and the best of locks will sometimes not open. If you can deal with the worst of men, then realize that you have commonsense.
Otherwise, people talk without commonsense: they have no understanding at all.
Have you ever seen a man with commonsense? I have not seen a single man with commonsense as yet. Big officials ask me, 'Have you never seen commonsense in anyone?' I have to tell them, 'From where will they get commonsense? Men fight with their wives so how can they have commonsense?' How can a man with commonsense fight with his wife? How can you fight with the person you eat, drink and live with? Can you call that commonsense? Where did you get such commonsense? People walk around with undue arrogance of, 'I know something What do they know? And yet men have no idea of what commonsense is. Everything happens as a result of fruition of one's karma
Even a person the world fears will not refrain from bickering with his wife. Why does he bicker with his wife? Does he not quarrel at least three or four times in a twelve-year span?
Questioner: He bickers everyday.
Dadashri: Everyday! So how can you consider him a man? And then he claims he has sense. Where is the sense? If he had any sense, he would not fight with his wife. When he has separation due to difference of opinion with his wife, do you not realize he lacks commonsense?
Questioner: How can we tell who of the two has less commonsense?
Dadashri: Can you not know who creates the separation due to differences in opinion matbhed) first? Will you not need some sense?
A man with commonsense will adjust everywhere. He will adjust even with the person that abuses him, he will say, "No problem, come and sit down.' So commonsense is required. But generally one will walk around with a sulking (risavu; upset and
