Aptavani-6
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Worldly interactions (vyavahar) for You will not present
much difficulty, once You deal with the vyavahar that unfolds
for You. Then whatever discharging intent is presenting as desire
(bhavna), it will be there, ready and waiting for you ahead of
time. ‘We’ (the Gnani and the fully enlightened Lord within) had
gone to Lake Vihar for a visit. There I had a new kind of
thought, ‘There are one hundred mahatmas here – fifty women
and fifty men. It would be so nice if they did Mataji’s garba
(devotional folk dance dedicated to the Goddess Amba).’ With
this thought, the moment I turned around they all stood up and
started doing garba! Now I had not asked anyone and yet it
happened. So this is what happens. Your thoughts will not go to
waste, your words will not be wasted. What is happening to
people nowadays? Nothing ‘grows or blossoms’ for them. Their
speech does not grow, their thoughts do not grow and neither
does their conduct. One will make three trips to collect on a
loan he made, but his debtor will never be there. Finally, when
he does meet the debtor, the debtor will become aggravated at
him.
This path is such that your debtor will come to your home
to return your money! If you make seven or so trips to collect
your money without success, and then, when you finally meet
him, he tells you to come back in a month’s time; if at that time
there is no change within you (i.e., you do not get aggravated),
then the money will come to your home!
Internal changes and reactions (effects - parinaam) do
occur within you, do they not? Changes and reactions like,
‘He is a useless person. He has no sense. He wasted my trip.’
Such are the changes that occur within you. Therefore, when
you go to him again to collect your money, he will curse you.
No changes take place within ‘us,’ so then where is the
problem? When changes occur within, then initially, even if the
other person was not going to get upset and become obstinate,
he will!