Akram Youth Common Sense | May 2016 | Akram Youth | Page 18

Dada’s Book Excerpt
It is "applicable everywhere”
Not everyone requires liberation, but
common sense is needed by all. It is only
because of its absence that one keeps
fighting at home at his own expense. Is
everyone a black-marketer (where
people fight and argue)? Even then, at
the end of a day, just three members of
a house hold would have created thirty
three differences! Where is the
happiness in this? So, one lives like a
shameless (Naffat) person. What is the
use of such a life without any self
respect?
So what is common sense? It is that
which is "everywhere applicable,
theoretically as well as practically." Such
common sense, I have not seen in
anyone. The key of common sense is
one that is "everywhere applicable".
Even the most rusted locks will open.
Otherwise, even the new locks get
jammed. If you can open the locks of the
most obstinate (Natharo) people, then
you know, that you have common
sense. Otherwise, all this talk shows lack
of 'common sense'. There is no
understanding there.
Common sense brings solutions
everywhere
Common sense is a very big thing. Once,
a person came and started insulting a
very senior person by using abusive

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language. The senior person did not get
affected at all. Because of the presence of
common sense. So we could see an
example of common sense by this senior
person. Any other person would have got
discouraged in the same situation. He
could have got depressed, but I did not see
any depression in this person, that is what I
was observing, whether there was any sign
of depression. This other person said so
many things but still, the senior person did
not get depressed. So what do I tell every
body, " Resolve your problems with
common sense! A person may say
anything! it all depends on his mind, and it
must be some merit karma of yours
because of which he is saying things like
that! Otherwise without merit karma
would anybody speak like this?”
Such an understanding wins over all
obstacles.
Questioner: Can a person with common
sense solve any issue?
Dadashri: Yes. He can solve many types of
issues, can solve all entanglements of
routine life.
Questioner: Does he get into clashes?
Dadashri: He gets into clashes rarely.
Common sense is the thing which prevents
one from clashing with others.
Questioner: That means where there is a
clash there is no common sense?
Dadashri: Not exactly, but it means
common sense is low.