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inkling of negativity will bring a tremendous covering of ignorance over your Gnan. So can you imagine how dense the cover will be if you criticize or speak negatively about a mahatma in his absence? In satsang, you should blend with others just like sugar dissolves in milk. It is the intellect that interferes in all this. I know everything about everyone, but I never say a word about it to anyone. Even a single negative word will bring a huge veil of ignorance over your Gnan.
You bind tremendous karma when you say, “He cheated me”. Instead if you slapped him a couple of times you would bind lesser karma. You are cheated only when your karma for getting cheated unfolds. How is it the other person's fault? On the contrary, he did help you shed your karma. He is a nimit (instrumental)
The Supreme Power to Destroy Karma
Questioner: We have to suffer the effects of our karma, don't we?
Dadashri: Yes. That is the law of karma. Questioner: Can the Gnani free us from that?
Dadashri: The Gnani Purush destroys your karma. But there are two kinds of karmas involved. Some have become frozen solid like ice, while others are like water and vapor. The Gnani eliminates the karmas that are like water and vapor, but you have no choice but to suffer the effects of those that have solidified like ice! However, after attaining knowledge of the Self, there is a difference in the way these karmas are suffered. The cut from the jab of a dry thorn will feel like a small pin prick. The suffering will seem a lot less intense. The Gnani Purush can destroy those karmas that remain in the 'causal form, but those karmas that are in the 'effect form, those that have become solid like ice, will definitely have to be suffered.
