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him. What kind of shadow does ‘our’ (Dadashri’s) mind have
on others? Even if a person is completely stupid, he will become
wise! If you feel, ‘I do not like Ramesh,’ in your mind, then
dislike will arise within you as soon as Ramesh walks into the
room. A shadow (chhaya) of your feeling, its image, falls on his
mind. He will immediately get a ‘picture’ within about what is
going on within you. This result (parinaam) within you will confuse
and entangle him! He may not know what is happening, yet he
is bothered from within. Therefore, you should get rid of the
opinions. When you wash off all your opinions, then you are
free.
However, we do not have opinions about everyone. If
someone steals every day, why do you have to form an opinion,
‘He is a thief’? He steals due to the effect of his karma, and the
person he steals from is also because of the effect of that person’s
karma. How does that have anything to do with you? But when
you call him a thief, is that not an opinion? And really speaking,
is he not the Self?
The Lord Mahavir saw everyone as without mistakes
(nirdosh). He never saw anyone at fault. And when your vision
becomes so pure, you too will have an environment which is
clean and clear. Then this world will appear like a garden. In
reality, people do not have bad attributes. One forms an opinion
about others within, and thus gets bound. ‘We’ may talk about
anyone but ‘we’ do not have any opinions of, ‘He is like this or
like that,’ at all!
You will also experience (anubhav) that since you got rid
of your opinion about this man, this change has occurred within
him. What do you have to do in order to change your opinion?
For the opinion, ‘This man is a thief,’ you have to say, ‘This man
is honest.’ You have to say, ‘I had formed a wrong opinion
about him. I am now letting go of that opinion. It is a wrong
opinion…it is wrong.’ Keep repeating that your opinion is wrong,