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others? How can I give happiness to others?
Dadashri: Just have this inner intent (bhaav), nothing else. Just maintain the bhaav, 'May no one be hurt because of my extra pride (abhimaan) and may people become happy.' And then, if someone does get hurt, do pratikraman and move on. What else can you do? Should you stay up the whole night for that? You do not have to do that. And it is not possible to stay up even if you want to. Then what will you do?
Nevertheless, you still have to be careful so that no one gets hurt because of your actions.
Questioner: In that sense, the entire worldly life is a result of the ego. The result of 'I am Chandulal' is the entire worldly life, is it not?
Dadashri: But now, after attaining Gnan, that ego is gone for You. If that ego was still there, then new consequences would continue to arise. New consequences do not arise after attaining this Gnan. And the old ones (effect in this life of causes created in the past life) keep going away. The old ones will go away. The ultimate solution (liberation) is at hand. That 'tank' (cycle of cause and effect of karma) is not being filled anew. Some people have a fifty-gallon tank and some have a twohundred and fifty thousand gallon tank. The bigger the tank, the longer it will take to empty it. But it has started to drain for sure. For the one for whom it is emptying, what does it matter?
Questioner: But as it is emptying, like the force of the flood water, it will topple someone, and it may even collide with someone and kill him!
Dadashri: Yes, all that is its result. What does that have to do with You, the Self? But if someone gets hurt then you should do pratikraman.
Anger and Its Reactions
Questioner: How should I do pratikraman for the anger
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that arises within?
Dadashri: After this Gnan, anger never arises for You at all. The taanto (the prolonged feeling of grudge that continues linked with a conflict) that remains in the non-Self is what we consider as anger. There is no taanto (link of grudge) that remains after attaining the Gnan. Now there is only 'residual fieriness (ugrata),' and that is the attribute of the subatomic particles (parmanus).
After attaining this Gnan, anger, pride, deceit and greed all go away. If this man gets angry (krodh), someone else may say, *He was just irritated (gusso).' I would tell him that there is a difference between krodh and gusso. Gusso is a paudgalik thing, meaning it is of the non-Self. Krodh (anger) is where there is a coming together of both the non-Self and the Self, where one becomes the non-Self. What is the difference between gusso and krodh? In krodh there is a violent intent (himsak bhaav) behind it. This man here does not have a violent intent. He may exhibit gusso (anger without violent intent) but he is doing pratikraman at the same time. Do you do that or not? He is constantly doing pratikraman.
He does not have taanto (link of grudge). What does taanto mean? It means that if you had a disagreement the night before, the next morning you will hear tea cups banging and doors of the cupboards in the kitchen slamming! (250)
People of the world have live anger (sajiv krodh), whereas You (Self-realized) have dead anger (nirjiv krodh). But with whose nimit does this dead anger occur? The poor man does incur some damage, does he not?
Difference between Krodh and Gusso
If there is a taanto (continued grudge linked with a certain disagreement) and violent intent (himsak bhaav), it is called krodh, it is called pride (maan), it is called greed (lobh). It is
