Aptavani-6
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own mistake; no one else is at fault.
Questioner: These sticky files I have, is that also because
of my own mistake?
Dadashri: Yes, you have made it sticky, so you have to
get rid of your stickiness. A simple and straightforward (bhodu)
person will have simple and straightforward files.
Questioner: Are people with sticky files deceitful?
Dadashri: No, we cannot call them deceitful. They keep
making everything stickier through the ego, whereas a
straightforward person will say, ‘Okay! That is fine!’ and will let
go. He does not care about the ego.
Speech, Pleasant or Unpleasant, is an Effect
Mistakes (dosh) are mainly of the speech. If speech does
not improve, if it does not become pleasant, then it will not bring
beneficial results. The Lord within pardons mistakes of the body
(deha), but speech hurts people, does it not?
Meaningful progress occurs once speech becomes
pleasant. Progressively, it becomes so pleasant that in the final
life, in the life before ultimate liberation, there is nothing that can
be compared to its sweetness, whereas some people, whenever
they speak sound like a groaning buffalo! This is a speech and
so is the speech of the Tirthankars (Totally enlightened beings)!
Questioner: If one has made the intent (bhaav) for
attaining such speech that does not hurt the ego of any living
being (syadvaad speech); if I made the bhaav that my speech
too should be so pleasant; will that bhaav not result in such a
speech?
Dadashri: No, it is not like that. To acquire such speech,
every day you have to ask for the energy to have speech that
hurts no one and that it gives pleasure to everyone. But nothing