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accordance with the vyavahar that unfolded with him, but you
have to erase it with pratikraman if you want to go to moksha.
Harsh words that come out and hurt the other person is
vyavahar too. Why did the speech come out harshly? It comes
forth because it was the time for this vyavahar between the two,
to unfold. The Lord too accepts this vyavahar.
What does it mean when someone insults you? It means
he has completed his vyavahar with you. Whatever the other
person does to you, whether he is insulting you or otherwise, he
is unfolding the vyavahar with you. Here you have to close this
vyavahar with vyavahar and accept that vyavahar as it is. Do not
bring or look for justice in it. You will become entangled if you do.
Questioner : What if we have never insulted anyone?
Dadashri : If that is the case, then no one will insult you.
But because there is a pending karmic account from before, the
other person cannot refrain from insulting you. It will come to
you only if it is in your karmic account. Whatever effects come
along, they come because of accounts. Effect in this life is the
cause created in one’s past life. The account of effect is
vyavahar.
Speech unfolds according to vyavahar between
individuals
How can we call it vyavahar, if instead of ‘dividing nine by
nine’, you ‘divide by twelve’?
What is worldly justice? It is to divide nine by twelve.
That is why people get entangled within. The worldly justice
says, “He said this to me, and so I should respond in this way.”
But if you speak just once, the other person will speak twice as
much. If you say something twice and the other person will say
it ten times. Vyavahar will continue because they are both
spinning tops (charged pudgal, prakruti). Vyavahar comes to an
end when both the tops stop talking.