Life without Conflict

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation

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life without Conflict
life without Conflict
did only two of you come? Why did five of you not come? I want to pay you all off.' What does our Gnan say? It says that the person who insults you does not know 'You' (the Self). You should tell your relative self, 'You must have made a mistake. That is why he insulted you. So now remain calm and do not get so excited!' If you do this, your karmic debt will be paid off. Instead when people have to face difficulties they become so distraught, they say, 'I am dead.' We all know you only die once but these foolish people will say, 'I am dead' so many times over! Can someone who is dead still be living? People do not have to say they are dead all their life. You just have to know what true suffering is.
Why does this child laugh and not cry when I smack him several times? And why does he cry when you smack him just once? Is it because he feels hurt from the pain? No, he does not cry from the pain, he cries because he feels insulted.
How can you call this suffering? It is suffering when you do not get food to eat or when you do not get to use the toilet. The local authorities have made toilets available in every home. Otherwise in the old days you had to carry some water in a pot into the forest to relieve yourself. Now you have bathrooms with toilets in your own bedrooms! Even the landlords and the mighty rulers of the past did not enjoy such facilities. They too had to go to the forest. Even they had to run to the forest when they had diarrhea! People unnecessarily go around complaining about trivial things in life. Why are they complaining unnecessarily?
Wrong understanding causes suffering. There is no such thing as suffering if the right understanding is applied. If there is a little infection in your foot, you have to look around
to see if anyone else has the same kind of suffering. If you look in a hospital you will realize what suffering is, while here you suffer unnecessarily with a little infection. You have to investigate all this, do not you? What happens if you suffer without looking into all the facts? How can there be any suffering for people who have so much merit karmas like yourself? You are born in a family of punyasadis (fortunate ones), where you get your meal with very little effort.
Questioner: Each person feels his suffering is greater than others.
Dadashri: That suffering is self-created so you can make it as great as you want to. You can make it forty times greater if you want.
A Worthy Project Humans do not know how to live life; they have lost the key to living. The key was completely lost but it is a little better now. After the British rule, people have relaxed their rigid ways and so they do not meddle in other people's affairs. Before, they did nothing but meddle.
People continue to suffer unnecessarily. There is no superior being over you in this world. You are absolutely independent. Even your project or mission in life is independent, but you should go about it in such a manner that you hurt no living being to the slightest degree. Make your project of life as big as this world.
Questioner: Is it possible to do so?
Dadashri: Yes. Mine is very big. I live with the constant awareness that no living being should be hurt by me.