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tolerate anything. You just have to understand that it is a ‘record'. If you do not believe that speech is in the form of a “record', then even your speech will come out like that. Therefore, the cycle of effect and cause, cause and effect will just perpetuate.
Speech is entirely a 'thermometer’.
This science is such that it will bring about a solution. If someone tells you off, or if he laughs at you, then you should laugh along with him. You know that this is how the record is playing. How can the other person be saying anything? He himself is a 'top' (spinning toy) there. This poor man only deserves sympathy!
Questioner: At the time, I do not have this kind of awareness.
Dadashri: First, you have to decide that, “Speech is a record.” Speech is a record, is a record, is a record... “Overt (sthool) circumstances, subtle (sookshma) circumstances, and circumstances of speech (vani) are of the non-Self (par) and they are dependent on the non-Self (paradhin).” Speech is neither in the hands of the speaker, nor is it in the hands of the listener. Circumstances of speech are of the non-Self and they are dependent on the non-Self. Who would stick out his hand when these firework rockets go off?
Bhagwan (God) moves away from any discussion that goes beyond two minutes. When the conversation turns reckless, Bhagwan leaves. It is okay to discuss something, as long as there is no insistence in it. With insistence, one increases the burden.
Speech Is the Embodiment of Ego
Speech is just an open ego. What is being said, and how much is being said, is all an open ego. Except, when the Gnani
