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happens because an account is still pending; otherwise, no one
can ever take anything away from anyone. No one has such
energy or power (shakti), and if they do take anything away,
then realize that there is a pending account that is being settled.
This world is very just. Not even a snake will touch you. This
whole compound can be full of snakes, and yet none of them
can touch you. That is how just and wonderful this world is. So
what happens when a person does not understand these facts
and speaks in his own language or has his own understanding?
Does One Take Precautions or Are They Just
Happening?
Questioner: Is it considered confusion (vikalp) in thought
processes if we keep thinking, ‘If it rains, then we will do it this
way’? Surely we should naturally think things through in this manner!
Having thought everything through, whatever happens afterwards
is correct. But is thinking in this way considered a vikalp?
Dadashri: For the one who has not taken Gnan, it is all
a vikalp (‘I am Chandulal’). The one who has taken Gnan has
an understanding and, therefore, no vikalp remains for him. As
a pure Soul (Shuddhatma), ‘You’ do not have to think at all.
Whatever thought arises has to be known.
Questioner: Does that mean that there is no need to take
any precaution?
Dadashri: How can there be anything as precautions?
Precautions also occur automatically. So now where is the
existence of the one who is taking precautions?
Who are you to take precautions when you stumble over
and fall in complete daylight? Can man really take precautions?
He does not have even the independent energy or power (shakti)
to relieve his bowels!
The whole world takes ‘precautions’ and yet do people
not have accidents? Where ‘precautions,’ or intellectual