Spirituality in Speech

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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Spirituality in Speech
Spirituality in Speech
Speech is inanimate; it is a record. When this taped record plays, is the tape not previously recorded? In the same manner, the tape of this speech has already been recorded. When the circumstances are right, it will begin to play just as a record begins to play the moment the pin on the stylus touches the record.
Does it not happen many times that although you have made a firm decision not to say anything to your mother-in-law or your husband, you end up saying something anyway? What made you speak, even though you did not wish to? Did your husband want to be yelled at? Then who or what makes you speak? It is a record that is playing and once a recording has already taken place, no one, absolutely no one can change or alter it.
problems in our Gnan and this is a fact. It is indeed, a record. So would there be any problem if you were to view speech in this light, starting as of now? People nowadays do not go around hitting others with sticks, instead they use their speech. Here all the bombs are made of speech. Would they have any problems if they were to conquer their speech? Speech is a record. That is why I have exposed its true nature to the world. The reason for my telling you that speech is a record is to make it worthless in your mind. To me, no matter what a person says, or how he says it, is of no value. I know that he has no capacity to say anything. He is simply a spinning top. And this here is the record talking. He is only a top and worth pitying.
Questioner : The awareness of 'This is a top' does not remain at the critical moment.
Sometimes you may decide to stand up to someone and speak up, and yet when you approach that person and find others around him, you refrain from saying anything and turn away. Something holds you back from uttering even a single word. Does that not happen? Now if speech were in your control, it would come out exactly as you wish, but does that ever happen?
This science is so beautiful that it does not bind you in any way and it brings about a quick resolution. If you keep this science in your awareness and remember what Dada tells you about people's speech being prerecorded, then no matter what anyone says to you, even if your superiors are reprimanding you, it will not affect you. This should become firmly engraved within you.
You should realize that when a person talks too much, it is simply a record that is playing. If you keep this in mind, then you will not fall. Otherwise what happens if you become emotional?
'Speech is a record', this is a major key in solving your
Dadashri : No, first decide that, 'Speech is a record, and then tell yourself, 'Whatever he is saying is vyavasthit. This is a file, settle it with equanimity.' Nothing will affect you if this knowledge is simultaneously present. Whatever he speaks, is vyavasthit, is it not? It is just a record that is playing, is it not? He is not the one speaking today, is he? Therefore he is not responsible. The Lord, through his vision has seen that every living being is faultless and flawless, and it is with this vision that he attained moksha. The worldly people see faults in others and that is why they clash with everyone and wander around in this world. This is the only difference between the two visions!
Questioner : Yes, but what effort (purusharth) do we have to make to perpetuate this vision?
Dadashri : No effort has to be made. The more you feel that whatever Dada is saying is the ultimate truth and the more it delights you, the greater will be the fitting and perpetuation of this vision internally.
So decide once and for all that it is exactly the way Dada