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Aptavani-2
get the work done?
Dadashri : No, not pamper it, but by explaining things to
it. Pampering the prakruti is a wrong approach; you have to
make it understand. Keep on doing so until it says ‘yes’ on its
own. You cannot accomplish anything until it understands.
However, do not go against it, it will go off on the wrong track
if you do. If you keep hitting an ox, it will overturn your cart. If
you strike an ox, it will start running. You may think it is
responding to the beating, but you can never tell when it will
overturn your wagon. Instead it is better that you coax it gently.
Prakruti is like a child, no matter how old it is. A person’s
prakruti may behave like a mature adult all his life but there is
no telling when it will turn childlike. It will cry, become indignant,
it will whimper and whine; it does all sorts of thing, does it not?
Questioner : Yes it does.
Dadashri : Since the prakruti is childlike it is easy to
persuade it, is it not?
You need to accomplish your work by reasoning and
explaining things to the prakruti; in fact it is essential and then it
will say ‘yes’ to you, but until it agrees with you, everything you
do will be in vain.
It may say ‘no’ to you for six months unrelentingly, yet in
a matter of only fifteen minutes of making it understand, it will
agree with you. It is like a child, and if it becomes obstinate, it
may never change even in a thousand years. There is a big
difference between the prakruti becoming obstinate and making
it understand. It is a special skill and an art to make it
understand. No matter how obstinate a child may be, if you
have the skills to explain things, then he will understand and
obey. Otherwise the child will throw a tantrum. You must know
how to do this. The presence of the Self within makes us learn
all this easily after knowing the Self. You can attain the art of all
skills, if you look for them. If you look for a solution and wait