Spirituality in Speech

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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causes a lot of hurt.
Questioner : How does speech materialize and how does it come to an end at the level of the inner scientific functioning?
Dadashri : They are all scientific circumstantial evidences. The speech you utter will be precisely the amount that is meant to be vented towards others and if there is no account pending, then everything will remain quiet at your end.
Once, in Dadar, a man who had proclaimed, 'I am going to see to it that Dada's reputation is destroyed' came to our satsang. When he came I asked him, 'Please say something.' I asked him again, Please say something.' Pointing to his throat, he replied, 'It comes up to here, but does not come out.' Aha, why don't you speak up!?! The words would not come out because my account is clear. So what power could he possibly have? 6. All Speech Is Non-Self And Beyond Your Control
Questioner : You say, 'All circumstances; the overt and the subtle, including circumstances of speech, are of the non-Self and are under the control of another entity. Please explain this.
Dadashri : Overt circumstances means everything that you encounter and experience through the five senses; the air that you breath as you walk along; meeting someone you know; coming across a snake etc., are all overt circumstances. Even when someone yells abuse at you, that too is an overt circumstance; these are all events that you encounter on the outside.
Subtle circumstances are thoughts that arise in the mind, good or bad and keep on coming.
Circumstances of speech are the events that arise when either you or someone else speaks or listens.
When you understand and keep in your awareness that, *All events, external or internal, including speech are of the nonSelf, and are under the control of some other power', then no matter what anyone says, you will not be affected by it. This sentence is not a figment of the imagination. It is exact. I am not asking you to respect what I say. This is exactly the way it is. It is due to your lack of understanding that you experience suffering.
Questioner : When someone says something hurtful, I can accept it and remain undisturbed because of your Gnan, but the question is that when I say something hurtful, am I not abusing the Gnan when I take the support of this sentence?
Dadashri : You cannot take refuge under that sentence! At that time you should be doing pratikraman. If you say anything that hurts others, then you must do pratikraman. If others say something that hurts you, then you must apply the knowledge that speech is under the control of some other entity and not the one who speaks. This will ensure that you do not feel hurt by what others say.
When you do pratikraman after having hurt someone with your speech, it will release you from the pain of your words. So in this way you will resolve everything.
Questioner: We often say things we do not want to and then we end up regretting it.
Dadashri : You are the knower-seer of the speech that comes forth from your relative self. If someone is hurt by that speech, then 'You' (real Self) have to make the speaker (relative self) do the pratikraman.
When someone curses 'us' (The Gnani Purush and the enlightened Lord within), I know that he is saying it to 'Ambalal Patel.' He is cursing the body complex (pudgal). He does not know or recognize the Soul (Atma) within the body. Therefore,