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Aptavani-6
Dadashri: Yes, that is true. There is nothing wrong when
sangharshan occurs, but I am telling you to get rid of the inner
intent (bhaav) of, ‘I want to enter into a conflict.’ When You do
not have inner intent of getting into conflict, even if ‘Chandulal’
(the relative-self) gets into conflict, so be it. Our vision should
not be obstructed.
If the body gets hurt from colliding with someone, it will
heal with treatment, but who will remove the wounds in the mind
and the buddhi that gharshan and sangharshan creates? They
will not go away for thousands of lifetimes!
Questioner: Does one become heartless and callous
(jadataa) because of excessive conflict?
Dadashri: One will become insensitive and callous and
the energies will also drain away. It is because of this that one
does not see the infinite energy within. There is infinite energy
but it leaves due to conflict. Lord Mahavir did not experience
even a single conflict from the time he was born right up until the
very end. And as far as we are concerned, about fifty thousand
to a hundred thousand conflicts would be acceptable but what
about the millions that have occurred? At least twenty to twenty-
five conflicts occur in a day. Even when you simply open your
eyes to look at someone, if you experience negative feelings
within, that is gharshan/conflict. What would happen if you
have conflict with this wall?
Questioner: Our head will break!
Dadashri: But that is non-living (jada)! What happens
when you have conflict with that which is the living (chetan)? A
man can go to liberation (moksha) only if there is absence of
conflict (absence of gharshan) in his life. If one learns not to
have any conflict with anyone, then he does not need a guru for
moksha. He will go straight to moksha within one or two
lifetimes. ‘I do not want any conflict!’; if this intent becomes