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Aptavani-4
that the hostile bhaavs do not arise. And should they arise at
times, you have the weapon of pratikraman, with which you
will be able to erase them. If water seeps into your factory, as
long as it does not freeze over, it is fine. If it does freeze, then
it is out of your hands.
If in a letter, you wrote something wrongly about
someone, as long as you have not mailed the letter yet, you still
have a chance to add a footnote to say, ‘ I have written some
hurtful things about you in the above letter, and it is
because I was out of my mind at the time, so please forgive
me.’ If you write that, all will be forgiven. But at that time, a
person would not let go his pride. So he will not write it. Rarely
does a person do that, because it would hurt his pride.
Just look at all these ‘scraps of prestige’! It takes so much
clothing, to hang on to one’s pride. And even then, if they tear,
you have to mend them. If a man’s clothes get dirty, he starts a
row, “You have not even washed my white cap. The boat-
shaped one I used to wear? Why haven’t you done any
ironing?” Now he starts quarreling about the ironing. Why does
he guard his reputation so much? You should look for the kind
of reputation where people would worship you, even if you went
around naked.
You have infinite energies (shakti) within you. You can turn
these energies any way you want to. You just need to know how.
The only type of speech this ‘tape recorder’ can handle,
is the kind that expresses love in every ‘dealing’ with others. For
that, you will receive great appreciation.
The scriptures tell you that you should not say anything
bad, or think anything bad. You may ask yourself why they keep
saying the same old thing over and over. This ‘machinery’ is just
that way, so it records everything. So when all the evidences
come together, there is havoc.