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order and people will compliment you. Similarly people around
you will praise you for your success in your business. This link
may carry on till one hundred and seven. But then it is going
to change, so be careful and alert. Then when you pick up a
card you will pull a fifty seven, then a three and then a hundred
and eleven. People will call you a fool. Therefore, do not
forsake the name of this ‘Dada—the Self’ or else you will
suffer a lot.
Some time later I returned to Mumbai from Jaighadh and
the contractor forgot after a few days what I had told him. He
suffered a heavy loss and both he and his wife tried to commit
suicide by drinking pesticides. But he had so much punya that
his brother, who happened to be a doctor, was able to save
them in time. The man came to see me immediately. I told him,
‘From now on, take Dada’s name and don’t ever repeat what
you did.’ After that he continued to take Dada’s name, and all
his paap (sin; demerit karmas) were washed–cleansed and
everything settled down.
When you say, ‘Dada’, paap will not come near you. It
will hover around you but it will not touch you. If you become
lax–dose off from your awareness then it will affect you. It will
not affect you in your sleep. If you fall asleep taking Dada’s
name and you wake up saying it, then you spent the time in
between, being the Self.
‘Mechanical’ Chetan
People of the world have no idea as to what is called
Chetan (life energy, the Self) in all this. They consider the
body to be the Chetan. They claim that the Chetan carries
out all the activities. But the Chetan does not do anything.
‘Knowing’ and ‘seeing’ are its only functions. The rest is of the
non-Self.
Who is doing the talking? It is the nischetan chetan
(lifeless living element; inert consciousness); it is the ‘mechanical’