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Commonsense avoids conflicts
Questioner: If a person had commonsense, would he not find solutions to everything?
Dadashri: He would solve all kinds of problems; he would solve all worldly entanglements.
Questioner: Does he have any conflicts?
Dadashri: There will be less conflict. Commonsense reduces conflicts.
Questioner: Does that mean where there is conflicts, there is no commonsense?
Dadashri: Not like that, but there is less commonsense
there.
Questioner: But who, with the exception of a Gnani, can stay away from conflicts?
Dadashri: There will not be any conflict where there is commonsense. A man with commonsense will fix relationships immediately; even when something goes wrong he will turn things around. It will not take him long to do so. That is commonsense. It is "everywhere applicable".
Questioner: But is commonsense not pushed aside whenever attachment or abhorrence occurs?
Dadashri: Commonsense is a matter of experience. It has nothing to do with attachment or abhorrence. Commonsense is the net experience of the worldly life.
How to stop swachhand (to act according to one's own will and intellect)
Questioner: Is insight (sooj) helpful in making decisions about worldly affairs?
Dadashri: Yes, insight (sooj) is helpful. Where can a person get such insight if he does not have it? In that case he
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should consult someone he trusts for guidance. In this world, there is nothing better than to ask for advice before you do anything. If you ask your boss, 'Can I go to the rest room?' and he says 'Go', then it does not matter even if you smoke for ten minutes while you are there. But if you go without asking him you will be caught. He will ask, 'Why did you go to smoke?' So ask before you go.
Questioner: Does swachhand (acting according to one's will and intellect), get destroyed if one asks for permission?
Dadashri: Yes, that is precisely why one needs to ask for permission - to get rid of his swachhand. That is why you are told to make a guru. That way you will not be driven by your own intellect (dahapan)! And whatever the guru says goes one hundred percent.
If 'we' tell this man, 'go run in this direction', and he does not stop to question why, that is defined as him not having any swachhand. That is when we can say his swachhand is gone. But if he stops to ask someone, 'Should I run in the direction Dada has told me to or not?' then it is called swachhand.
Yes, there is no need to ask me anything about worldly matters. For that you can ask your father or your elders or anyone who has experience in such matters. Ask them, they will explain everything to you.
Questioner: But during the time of worldly interactions, it is the commonsense that is applicable, is it not?
Dadashri: But where will he get commonsense? If he reads our books, he will attain some insight (sooj) but where will he get commonsense? Is it anything cheap or worthless?
Straightness increases commonsense
Questioner: Does commonsense increase when one becomes straight (sarad)?
