Aptavani-2
171
Dadashri : No, the fault can never be anyone else’s. You
encounter a nimit (person who is instrumental) because of your
own faults. The one who suffers is verily the one at fault. There
are consequences in doing something yourself, in making others
do or encouraging others into doing. You will have to face the
consequences for encouraging and instigating (anumodan)
others into doing. Without an action (cause) there can be no
reaction (effect).
Questioner : What does anumodan mean?
Dadashri : If a person is hesitant about doing something
and you tell him, “Go ahead and do it. I am here with you.” That
is called anumodan (to give encouragement) and the one who
encourages, carries a greater liability. Who faces a greater
liability for doing something? The consequences are distributed
heavily upon the one who uses more intellect. People find
mistakes in others but none in themselves. If the mind runs
contrary to one’s wishes, he will say he is fed up of this world.
If the intellect interferes, he will say that the intellect is being
obstinate. There is endless Ramayana and Mahabharata (wars)
within one and he becomes the owner.
Who is the owner of the universe ?
Every jiva (embodied soul) is the owner of this universe.
But one lives like an insect (jivadu) because of ignorance of the
Self. He who has no ownership of the body becomes the owner
of the entire universe. Realization that you are the owner of the
whole world is moksha in itself. Why then are you still not able
to understand this? It is because your mistakes still bind you;
otherwise the whole world belongs to you. When someone
insults you, he does so because there must be an outstanding
karmic account pending with him, so you should accept it and
credit it in your account. Who would start a new business of
creating new karmas again? If you deposit that insult into your
account, that particular karma will end and thereafter you will