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Dadashri: It will begin to leave, the moment you make a decision to get rid of it. If it is an entrenched opinion, it will come to an end if you “dig” into it for two hours every day. After attaining the Self, You have attained purusharth dharma (the religion of the Self), and purusharth dharma can go all the way up to super effort (parakram), which is capable of eradicating and destroying any kind of obstacle (atkan). But You have to know what caused the opinion in the first place, and then you must do pratikraman for it.
How heavenly your home would become, if everyone in it got rid of their opinions about each other!
Questioner: What if we have an opinion about someone's prakruti, and we believe that if we did not say anything to him, he would not change?
Dadashri: As long as you have the opinion that, “Nothing can be achieved without getting angry with him,' then should he get into trouble with you, you will not refrain yourself from rebuking him, because the previous ‘reactions are bound to occur. Although you may have decided to rid yourself of your opinion about him, those reactions from the past will still linger on for a while. They will remain for you and for him as well.
Questioner: Opinions annoy me over and over again.
Dadashri: You should try to not have an opinion even about that opinion.
Questioner: Who makes opinions?
Dadashri: When a mango comes in front of you, according to your own prakruti, your senses (indriya) may like it. It is not the nature of the sense organs to form a good or a bad opinion about anything. Worldly influence (loksangnya) plays a huge role in this. A person forms opinions of, “This is
