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282 Aptavani-2 bully a weakling. The Lord has said that whenever you spoil any circumstance of another being, you are really spoiling your own circumstance and you will have to face the very same circumstance. Every circumstance is a ‘file’ and you have to deal with it with equanimity. For countless past lives one has been contemptuous towards circumstances he did not like, and that is why in this life he has to have to face circumstances that bring nothing but contempt from every direction. Circumstances represent the account of parmanus that are brought forth by vyavasthit. People keep cursing and pushing away bitter circumstances. Circumstances say, “We have come because vyavasthit has sent us. If you curse us, vyavasthit will make you pay.” And people welcome with open arms circumstances that are pleasant. If you remain within the circumstances, circumstances will perish and so will you but if you remain as the Self, separate from circumstances, You will remain separate and eternal. Bitter circumstances will still come even if you reject and repel them and pleasant circumstances will still go away even if you invite them. You have wasted away countless past lives doing just this; you have done nothing but adverse meditation. If you want liberation, then remain as the Self (shukla dhyan) and if you want the worldly life, then maintain an attitude of helping others and avoid negative meditation (artadhyan and raudradhyan). A person who has dharma dhyan maintains the awareness, ‘It is my own past life’s account that brings forth this bitter circumstance,’ when someone hurts him. Thus he turns the negative circumstance around into a positive and a pleasant one. If a person com