________________
Aptavani-9
427
428
Aptavani-9
"We have never said 'What do I care?' Even being a Gnani Purush, 'we' cannot say that, in any situation. 'We' cannot say it even when someone comes here under any predicament or situation.
One woman in our extended family had passed away and her son came to give me the news. He told me, 'I had to come here to give you the news personally. I told him, "Son, you inform me now and it is very late in the day, is it not?' So he told me, 'No Dada. You do not have to come home. 'Even so I still went to his home for a few minutes, came home and also took a bath afterwards (a normal tradition). So the approach of 'What do I care?' is not acceptable in the worldly life. The worldly interactions (vyavahar) must be carried out as worldly interactions are meant to be. You are not going to lose your soul by doing so.
It is the gravest mistake to say, 'What do I care?' These words are never to be found in our' dictionary at all. These words cannot be uttered in your home, outside or here in the satsang. 'What do I care?' is this something one should even utter? If one does, that ego will never go away. That ego becomes solid. Then it will never leave. It will not break, ever.
People make the statement, 'what do I care?' even when it involves their sister, brother or mother.
Questioner: What does this inner intent of 'What do I care?' towards anyone, indicate?
Dadashri: Worthlessness! 'What do I care?' How can anyone even utter such a statement? You have taken birth in their home and you say 'What do I care?' It is a grave fault. You must never say this. Not only can you not say this in your own home but you cannot say it elsewhere either. These are all grave faults.
Questioner: What kind of a fault is it?
Dadashri: It is not even the correct 'paper' so what is the point of looking for a mistake when the paper is not correct in the first place? We can consider the mistakes and faults if the paper is correct, but when one says 'What do I care?' - that paper is not correct; it is wrong, it is one hundred percent wrong!
Questioner: You have said, 'To say, 'What do I care?' is a violation in the eyes of God as well as nature.
Dadashri: That person is guilty all over. There is nothing else left for him as far as mistakes and liability is concerned. When his paper is not even worth reading what is the point of looking for mistakes? When do we consider mistakes? It is when one's paper has any worth. But here the paper is worthless so what is the point in looking for mistakes? One takes on the gravest liability when he says, 'What do I care?'
Questioner: How can we get out of the entrenchment of the attitude of what do I care?' that has taken hold form within?
Dadashri: 'What do I care?' It is the lowest degree there is and the way to get out of it is to walk back the path that lead you in that wrong direction; you have to use that same path in order to come out of it.
Questioner: So what did you say we had to do in turning back? What has to be done on the way back?
Dadashri: The road that brought you here is the road that will take you back. How do I know which way you went in? You know which path you took. Go back the way you came and it will go away.
Questioner: So what does one do in that? Dadashri: You do pratikraman over and over.
Questioner: Does infatuation (aasakti) not decrease by saying, 'What do I care?' Does excessive aasakti not go down by saying this?
