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life without Conflict
Whatever the embodied soul, whether it is a snake, a scorpion, a cow or a bull, they harbour vengeance. This is because every living being has a Soul within and the power of the Soul is the same in every living being. It is because of the body complex weakness (the relative-self) that one has to tolerate suffering and when a person experiences suffering, he cannot help but harbor enmity and that enmity will avenge itself in the next life.
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Tolerate? No, Find a Solution
Questioner: Dada, when you tell us to avoid conflict, does that mean we have to tolerate everything?
Dadashri: Avoiding conflict does not mean having to tolerate. And if you do, how much and for how long will you tolerate? Tolerance is like compressing a spring; how long can it remain compressed? Rather than tolerating, you must find a solution.
In the absence of Gnan people have no choice but tolerate everything but when one day that 'spring' breaks free of the load it is bearing, it will topple everything in sight; that is the principle of nature.
There is no law of nature that says you have to be tolerant. Whatever you have to tolerate because of someone, is really your own karmic account. But you do not have the knowledge of past accounts and that is why it appears to you that the other person is dishing out something new; you perceive him as the doer. No body is dishing out anything new. They are simply returning what was dished out to them. Our Gnan does not require you to tolerate anything. With the application of this Gnan, you simply have to realize that the other person is a pure Soul (Shuddhatma) and that whatever
life without Conflict
has come your way is solely because of your own past karma and that the other person is simply an instrument in the process. With this understanding and this Gnan, all your puzzles will be solved.
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Questioner: Does that mean we have to accept and come to a closure in our mind, that whatever we had dished out is coming back to us?
Dadashri: The other person is a pure Soul and this, on the outside, is his prakruti. It is the prakruti that delivers the effect of past causes. You are the pure Soul and he too is a pure soul. Now where is the wire that connects the two? This is your prakruti and that is his; both the prakrutis are settling each other's karmic debts. It is because of the unfolding of this prakruti's karma that the other prakruti is giving something back. That is why we say, "This is my own karmic account that has come into maturation, the other person is merely instrumental in the process and by doing what he did, my karmic account is cleared and paid off.' When you have such a solution, is there a need to tolerate anything at all?
What happens if you try to tolerate? If you do not solve thingsthrough Gnan and understanding, the spring will one day recoil. Have you ever seen a spring recoil? My spring used to recoil a lot. For a while I used to tolerate a lot, then when the 'spring' recoiled, everything around me would blow up! All this used to happen in the absence of Gnan but I do remember it well. It is all in my Gnan and that is why I am telling you not to learn to tolerate things. It is only in the state of ignorance of the Self that one has to tolerate. You must clarify everything through Gnan and understand what the consequences will be by doing things a certain way. What was the cause behind it? You have to look deeper in
