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discharged. Here, seeing the mother-in-law at fault the daughter-
in-law will bind more karma even before the old ones discharge.
This is how people become more entangled as they increase
their karma, life after life. How can they become free from such
entanglements? There is nothing but entanglements all day long.
Animals do not have such entanglements. Only the
humans do and it is because they continue to create new ones.
Animals will run away if someone were to hurt them. They do
not stay and complain or accuse people that hurt them. They do
not have such intellect (buddhi). The humans have attained
intellect (buddhi) and they abuse it. On the contrary they
become more entangled. People create entanglements in the
very situation they are supposed to become free from. One
should become free from every karma. You should become free
from the entanglement of each of your karma. Every time the
mother-in-law abuses the daughter-in-law, the daughter-in-law
should seize the opportunity and become free from karma. What
should she do for that? She should not see the mother-in-law as
being at fault. If she sees her as the nimit and accepts that she
has come to her as a consequence of her past karma, she will
be freed from her karmas. But she will bind even more karma
if she sees her at fault, so what can God or anyone else do?
The Lord says, “Even if you bow down to my idol
everyday, until you attain ‘this’ understanding, it is like drinking
poison and therefore ‘we’ cannot tell you that you will get better
if you keep on drinking. Follow my agnas. Instead of
worshipping me, ‘we’ prefer that you follow ‘our’ agnas. You
worship everyday but you do not abide by a single word of
‘ours’ and that is tantamount to stepping on my tongue. Are you
not ashamed of that?” One would reply, “Sir, I did not realize that
I was stepping on your tongue.” And that is true. How is the poor
man to know that? He does what others do and no one has ever
explained things to him. How can he then turn himself around? He
can only do so if someone gives him the right understanding.