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then it is not considered penance (tapa). When the other person
learns about your problems, he will sympathize with you and
thus take away part of your penance. You have to do the penance.
What good is it when someone else takes away part of your
profit as a commission? Just by listening to your complaints, he
shares in your profit. Who would want to give up his profit by
accepting sympathy from others?
On the way back to Baroda from Bombay, the moment
‘we’ sat in the car ‘we’ told Ambalal Patel (Dadashri’s worldly
name), ‘You will have to sit in the same place for seven hours.
Penance has come to you.’ While ‘we’ are talking to you, ‘we’
also have our own inner conversation with our relative-self. We
tell him, ‘Today, penance has come directly in front of you, so
do not say a word.’ People try to console or comfort ‘us’ with,
‘Dada, are you comfortable or not?’ so I tell them, ‘I am very
comfortable.’ But I will not give anyone any commission because
I go through the penance completely. That is considered doing
penance.
Premature Fruition of Karmas – Udirana
Questioner: Is this udirana not considered penance?
Dadashri: Udirana (energy that makes possible the
premature fruition of karmas) is considered a spiritual effort
(purusharth). But it is a purusharth after one becomes the Self
(purush). Actually, it falls into parakram (extraordinary spiritual
effort). Anyone below the seventh spiritual level (gunasthanak)
of the attributes of the pure Self cannot ‘do’ that. Now that You
have attained this Gnan, You can ‘do’ all the udirana. If some
karmas are due to unfold after twenty years, then You can destroy
them today.
Questioner: But how does one know that a particular
karma is due to unfold after twenty years?
Dadashri: Why not? Once that tuber (gaanth) dissolves,