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inkling of negativity will bring a tremendous covering of
ignorance over your Gnan. So can you imagine how dense the
cover will be if you criticize or speak negatively about a
mahatma in his absence? In satsang, you should blend with
others just like sugar dissolves in milk. It is the intellect that
interferes in all this. I know everything about everyone, but I
never say a word about it to anyone. Even a single negative
word will bring a huge veil of ignorance over your Gnan.
You bind tremendous karma when you say, “He cheated
me”. Instead if you slapped him a couple of times you would
bind lesser karma. You are cheated only when your karma for
getting cheated unfolds. How is it the other person’s fault? On
the contrary, he did help you shed your karma. He is a nimit
(instrumental).
The Supreme Power to Destroy Karma
Questioner: We have to suffer the effects of our karma,
don’t we?
Dadashri: Yes. That is the law of karma.
Questioner: Can the Gnani free us from that?
Dadashri: The Gnani Purush destroys your karma.
But there are two kinds of karmas involved. Some have
become frozen solid like ice, while others are like water and
vapor. The Gnani eliminates the karmas that are like water
and vapor, but you have no choice but to suffer the effects of
those that have solidified like ice! However, after attaining
knowledge of the Self, there is a difference in the way these
karmas are suffered. The cut from the jab of a dry thorn will
feel like a small pin prick. The suffering will seem a lot less
intense. The Gnani Purush can destroy those karmas that
remain in the ‘causal’ form, but those karmas that are in the
‘effect’ form, those that have become solid like ice, will
definitely have to be suffered.