Aptavani-6
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Recording of Speech as Codes
Questioner: What is the method for one to improve his
speech?
Dadashri: This is the place; your being in front of the
Gnani is the way to improve speech. Here you should keep
asking questions again and again and arrive at the solutions and
closure.
‘Gross circumstances, subtle circumstances and
circumstances of speech are (of) the non-Self (par) and are
dependent on the non-Self (paradhin).’
When only this simple sentence remains in your
understanding and awareness, then no matter what another person
says, it will not have any effect. This sentence is not an imaginary
sentence. It is exact. I am telling you that which is ‘exact’ and
as it is. I am not telling you to follow my words by respecting
them. ‘Exact’ is only this – that which is ‘exact’ is only this way:
You suffer because you do not understand the facts as they are.
Questioner: I am able to maintain equanimity through
Gnan when someone says anything negative to me. But the main
question that remains is, when I speak something bitter and
hurtful and then take the support of this great sentence, ‘Gross
circumstances, subtle circumstances and circumstances of speech
are of the non-Self and are dependent on the non-Self,’ – does
that mean I am getting the wrong license (misusing Gnan)?
Dadashri: One should never take the support of that
sentence at such times, should one? For times like that, you have