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that the hostile bhaavs do not arise. And should they arise at times, you have the weapon of pratikraman, with which you will be able to erase them. If water seeps into your factory, as long as it does not freeze over, it is fine. If it does freeze, then it is out of your hands.
If in a letter, you wrote something wrongly about someone, as long as you have not mailed the letter yet, you still have a chance to add a footnote to say, 'I have written some hurtful things about you in the above letter, and it is because I was out of my mind at the time, so please forgive me.' If you write that, all will be forgiven. But at that time, a person would not let go his pride. So he will not write it. Rarely does a person do that, because it would hurt his pride.
Just look at all these 'scraps of prestige’! It takes so much clothing, to hang on to one's pride. And even then, if they tear, you have to mend them. If a man's clothes get dirty, he starts a row, “You have not even washed my white cap. The boatshaped one I used to wear? Why haven't you done any ironing? Now he starts quarreling about the ironing. Why does he guard his reputation so much? You should look for the kind of reputation where people would worship you, even if you went around naked.
You have infinite energies (shakti) within you. You can turn these energies any way you want to. You just need to know how.
The only type of speech this 'tape recorder' can handle, is the kind that expresses love in every dealing with others. For that, you will receive great appreciation.
The scriptures tell you that you should not say anything bad, or think anything bad. You may ask yourself why they keep saying the same old thing over and over. This ‘machinery' is just that way, so it records everything. So when all the evidences come together, there is havoc.
