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Aptavani-4
Dadashri: It will begin to leave, the moment you make a
decision to get rid of it. If it is an entrenched opinion, it will come
to an end if you “dig” into it for two hours every day. After
attaining the Self, You have attained purusharth dharma (the
religion of the Self), and purusharth dharma can go all the way
up to super effort (parakram), which is capable of eradicating
and destroying any kind of obstacle (atkan). But You have to
know what caused the opinion in the first place, and then you
must do pratikraman for it.
How heavenly your home would become, if everyone in
it got rid of their opinions about each other!
Questioner: What if we have an opinion about someone’s
prakruti, and we believe that if we did not say anything to him,
he would not change?
Dadashri: As long as you have the opinion that,
‘Nothing can be achieved without getting angry with him,’ then
should he get into trouble with you, you will not refrain yourself
from rebuking him, because the previous ‘reactions’ are bound
to occur. Although you may have decided to rid yourself of
your opinion about him, those reactions from the past will still
linger on for a while. They will remain for you and for him as
well.
Questioner: Opinions annoy me over and over again.
Dadashri: You should try to not have an opinion even
about that opinion.
Questioner: Who makes opinions?
Dadashri: When a mango comes in front of you,
according to your own prakruti, your senses (indriya) may like
it. It is not the nature of the sense organs to form a good or a
bad opinion about anything. Worldly influence (loksangnya)
plays a huge role in this. A person forms opinions of, “This is