Akram Youth Beware! Do Not Obstruct anyone | August 2015 | Akr | Page 8

Gnani's Scientific Solutions
You yourself have
created obstacles
due to ignorance.
Questioner: How do hurdles
happen?
Dadashri: This gentleman is
offering snacks and you say,
“Now leave it. It will be wasted.” Thus you
have created an obstacle. When
somebody is doing charity and you say:
“Don't donate to them. They are
cheating.” Here you have placed a hurdle
on yourself for money. The other person
may donate or may not, that's beside the
point. But you have for sure placed an
obstacle whereby even in your bad times
there won't be anyone to help you.
At your office you humiliate your
assistant saying, “You idiot”. Thus you
have put a mental block on your own
intellect. Tell me, how many births have
human beings wasted by being trapped in
their self-created obstacles? You have no
right to call anyone 'idiot'. By doing so, he
may also reciprocate with bad words and
create obstacles for himself! So how can
one stop creating obstacles in this world?
If you call someone “a useless fellow”,
you create hurdles on your own abilities.
If you immediately regret and do
'Pratikraman' for that mistake, the
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hurdle will be removed before it sets in.
Questioner: What if one has created
obstacles by his thoughts rather than his
speech?
Dadashri: Such obstacles affect more, but
in your next life; whereas those created by
speech affect you in this life. Your speech
and it's 'effects' are both encased in this
life; whereas what you have 'designed' in
your mind will result as obstacles in your
next life.
Your son may be changing clothes
twice a day and you scold him saying;
“Why are you wasting money, besides
spoiling clothes?” Here you have created
obstacles for yourself when it comes to
the matter of clothes.
On the way, you come across a poor
man who is crying, so you give him Rs.11/-.
Another man comes and tells you: “Leave
it, don't give Rs.11/- but give him only Re.1/. You are the giver, the other person is the
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