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Aptavani-2
you will come across someone in this life who will settle this
account. He will be instrumental in your receiving 500 Rupees.
Once the accounts are settled, that person will leave and you
will not encounter him again. People separate, they go their own
way, they die. Then you will not meet each other again if no new
karmic accounts are created.
This china set of cups and saucers worth a hundred
dollars will be here with you as long as your karmic account is
there with them. When that relationship comes to an end, they
will break. When they break, it is vyavasthit and you should not
keep remembering them after that. Are people also not like the
cups and the saucers? You merely witness with your eyes that
they died, but in reality they do not die, they come back here
again. That is why, when you do their pratikraman, it reaches
them. It will reach them wherever they are.
Behold the One who swallows all the bitterness
Questioner : Dada, when someone uses bitter words
towards me, it is difficult to tolerate them. What should I do?
Dadashri : Let me clarify that for you. Say there is a
thorn lying on the road. Thousands of people walk by it and
nothing happens to them. But when Chandubhai walks by, the
thorn somehow pierces his foot through and through even
though it was pointing sideways. Experience of bitterness is due
entirely to the account of karma. So when that happens, believe
and understand that that much bitterness is now being deducted
from the pending account of bitterness. Pleasure that is
experienced is also reduced by that amount from the pending
account. Yet, when one experiences pain and bitterness, he does
not like it. Why does he not like the painful experience even
when it is being reduced from the pending account? If he asks
for more bitterness from the one who is serving it to him, if he
requests the man to insult him some more, the man would not.
It is not under the hands of the one who is serving the bitterness.