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life without Conflict
life without Conflict
your account book, not a single event that comes to you is outside of your account book.
Prevention Of New Karma Questioner: How can we prevent a new cycle of this give and take for the coming life?
Dadashri: What is the definition of new give and take? Causes of karma are new give and take. All that you experience in this life is an effect of causes created in your previous life. Everything that takes place is an effect and the causes are invisible. You cannot see the causes through your senses; whatever you see is all an effect. Therefore you should realize that your debts are being paid off. Whatever new causes are being created, are taking place from within, and those you cannot see. You will see them when they produce their results as an effect. The current causes have not yet been transferred to your final ledger.
Questioner: Is all that unfolds today the account from the final ledger of the past life?
Dadashri: Yes.
For Justice, the Solution Is Penance
Questioner: What should we do if we want to avoid conflict and settle matters with equanimity but the other person keeps harassing us and insulting us?
Dadashri: Nothing. That is your karmic account and therefore you should make a decision that you want to settle with equanimity. You should remain within the confines of your principles and intentions and continue to solve your own puzzle yourself.
Questioner: When someone insults me, is it because of my ego that I feel insulted?
Dadashri: When someone insults you, he is actually dissolving your ego, and that is your dramatic ego (the relative or discharge ego). Whatever excess ego you may have, becomes dissolved when someone insults you. What harm is it going to cause you? These kinds of karmas prevent your freedom. Even if there is a small child in front of you, you have to tell him to free you.
If someone does injustice to you and you wonder and question why, then you will bind karma. It is on account of your mistake that he has to render the injustice to you. How can one's understanding reach this level? On the contrary, people will cause havoc. In the eyes of God, no one is doing justice or injustice; everything is simply 'correct. How can one's understanding reach this level? If differences in opinion at home become less, there will less quarreling and consequently love will increase amongst everyone. If this happens, then know that Gnan has been understood and not otherwise.
Gnan says that you are a fool to look for justice.
Questioner: The conflicts that take place, are they on the basis of vyavasthit?
Dadashri: Yes, conflicts occur on the basis of vyavasthit but when can you say that? You can only say it is vyavasthit after it happens. Your firm determination must be, 'I do not want to get into any conflicts.' When you see a pole in your path, your determination is not to walk into it, you know you have to go around it but despite all this if you still happen to walk into it, then it is vyavasthit. If you claim everything is vyavasthit ahead of time, then that is a misuse of vyavasthit.
