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much heat in my intestines”. Hey now! You may get gas from it, but others will not. Their whole language is awkward, so what can you do?
This world has arisen through speech, and it will end through speech.
In these developed households, of cultured people, it is not their careless behavior, but their careless speech, that causes unhappiness (dukh; grief). Do you think that these people throw stones at each other at home? No! They shoot arrows of words. Is it better to throw a stone or is it better to strike with harsh speech?
Questioner: A stone is better.
Dadashri: Our people prefer stones over something that does not physically hurt them. If something causes bleeding or burning when it hits you, you can get a doctor to treat you. But when words cause a wound, it will never heal. Even after fifteen years or so, that wound will go on hurting! Why is that so? It is because you believe that the words came from the person himself. I guarantee you that, every living being's speech is a ‘record'. Even mine is a ‘record'! If this ‘record' is playing, “Chandubhai is not a good man, Chandubhai is not a good man...” would you be become defensive?
Questioner: But that is a machine, isn't it?
Dadashri: Even when human beings speak, they are all ‘records'. If you consider your own words, as a ‘record and the other person's words as a ‘record' you will find a solution. There is no other way to win over the world. As soon as you utter, “record”, the other person has become faultless (nirdosh)!
When in a state of ignorance, as long as a person feels, 'He keeps going on and on... How can I take any more of it?!', sickness will not leave. You do not have to suffer or
