90 Aptavani-6
others; this is why they see us as being egotistic.
Dadashri: You will have to wait until the echoes / effects from your old ego go away.
There was a boy from a much respected family who had a habit of stealing. He stopped stealing and came to me and told me,‘ Dada, people still call me a thief.’ I told him,‘ You had been stealing for the last ten years and people did not know of that. They considered you an honest man. Now that you are not a thief, even if you are honest, your past ten years of stealing will keep resonating. So tolerate it for ten years, but do not start stealing again because you may feel in your mind,‘ They call me a thief anyway, so I might as well steal!’ Do not do that.
Hollowness, lack of substance and deceit will not go away. For me, too, the echoes prior to my enlightenment still resonate in my relatives.
Questioner: How can those echoes go away quickly?
Dadashri: They are leaving gradually. When a train leaves from here, what do people say? The train has gone to Bombay.
Questioner: One is a slow local train; one is the fast Rajdhani Express. We want the Rajdhani Express, the fast train.
Dadashri: That is the restless nature. If you do not let the rice cook all the way, everyone will have to eat uncooked rice. So when you have such food cooking, you have to be patient.
The Results( Effects) are Not Under Your Control
Questioner: The one who is doing something wrong knows what he is doing, yet why does he do wrong?
Dadashri: When something wrong happens, it is a result, an effect, of a charged karma of past life. If we throw a ball and then tell the ball to remain exactly where we threw it, is it possible?