Aptavani-6
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wife will continue to feel the hurt. The echoes of this hurt will
inevitably be there within the man and he will have to clear (pay
off) that account.
Questioner: Please explain this in more detail.
Dadashri: What ‘we’ are trying to convey is that when
you become instrumental (a nimit) in causing the slightest of pain
(dukh) to another being, then its effect will inevitably fall upon
you. You will have to settle that account, so beware.
If you scold your assistant at work, will its effect not fall
upon you? It will for sure. So tell me, how can the world become
free from suffering? The one who has become such that no one
gets hurt by him, in the slightest degree, is the blissful one. There
are no two ways about this. The Agnas ‘we’ give you are such
that you become free from all kinds of miseries. And you will not
find any difficulty in practicing those Agnas. You are free to do
whatever you choose, you are free to eat and drink and roam
around, you are also free to go to see movies if you so desire.
If someone wants three buckets of water for his bath, ‘we’ will
tell him he can have four. ‘Our’ Agnas are not restrictive in any
manner.
Therefore, the effect (asar) within of hurting anyone will
not leave you alone. When you hurt children in your attempts to
improve them, the effect of the hurt caused to them will fall on
you. So talk to them in such a way that it will not cause such
an effect and they will improve. Is there not a difference between
a copper vessel and a glass one? Do you consider them to be
the same? You can repair the dents caused to a copper vessel
but a glass vessel will break. Otherwise, the entire life of the
child is ruined.
The beatings and the suffering you endure in life are due
to ignorance of this matter. You may say things to improve this
person or that person, but the effect of the pain you cause in the
process will fall on you.