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man." Again Gurudev asked him gently, "No, I am not asking you whether you are guilty of this crime. I am inquiring whether in your life you have ever caused pain to somebody. I will not tell anyone what you tell me. Don't be afraid.”
Then the man opened his heart. “A few years ago, somebody raped my wife and I became furious and killed him, but I was not proven guilty for that murder. Now I am found guilty for a crime I did not commit.”
"Sometimes it comes from the back door,” Gurudev told him. “That is the universal law. It is beyond our human mind to grasp, but the universe works like a computer. Invisibly, like a wave, a vibration is sent out in the universe. It touches its mark and makes its way back again to give us the experience of what we did to someone else. It always happens. That is why we have to be aware of the consequences of each thought, word, or action before we send it out in the world.”.
“What shall I do?" the man pleaded.
“Now you work for your inner freedom. Pour the waters of forgiveness on all your anger. Clean out your mind and heart of all the burning elements. Realize like Koshalraj that sooner or later, all must die, but that if you go with forgiveness in your heart, you go as a free man. There are people who live imprisoned by their fears or their hatred or their attachment to wealth, and their lives are not really lived. They are dead before time. And there are those who ennoble their lives by freeing themselves from every petty thought and every resentment. Then, though they may have to face physical danger, they remain free. Such people are truly awakened and alive.
“Live on this level, my friend. What counts is inner libera-tion, not outer, for outer remains outer, while inner freedom is real."
On this same morning in Bombay, the citizens of Bombay were happy to read in a Gujarati newspaper the following jubilant announcement:
“The learned Master, great orator Muniraj Gurudev Shree Chandraprabh Sāgarji (Chitrabhanu) who has attracted thousands of men and women with his fluent and charm
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