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Aptavani-6
Questioner: One has to tell children something, these
days, does he not?
Dadashri: There is nothing wrong in telling them, but
speak in a way that it does not hurt them and that the echoes
of that do not fall on you. You have to make a decision that you
do not want to hurt anyone in the slightest extent.
Memory Event is Bondage
Why does anything arise in memory (yaad, yaadgiri)?
From where does it come? Tell the memory, ‘Why do you keep
coming even when ‘I’ have nothing to do with you, and ‘I’ don’t
want anything from you?’ It will reply, ‘This is your complaint
(fariyaad). That is why I have come.’ Then you should say,
‘Come on, let me attend to it and deal with you.’
You should simply do pratikraman (ask for forgiveness
from the pure Soul of the one you have ‘hurt,’ coupled with
remorse of the wrongdoing) for memory of any being, thing or
event, even when you are relaxing. You do not have to do
anything else.
I have shown you the whole path that I have followed to
attain liberation. That path is very easy and straightforward.
Otherwise, liberation is not possible. Lord Mahavir (a fully
awakened, enlightened being in India, 2500 years ago) could do
that; no one else can. The Lord was truly a great hero (Mahavir;
maha – great; vir – hero). Even then, he had to take so many
higher and lower level births.
Everything will fall into place if you follow what the Gnani
tells you.
Why does a memory event (yaad) arise? It is because
somewhere ‘it’ is stuck within. Nevertheless, this is a relative
sticking; it is not real. ‘I do not want any temporary thing in this
world.’ You have decided this much, have you not? So why then
does a memory event (yaad) arise? Therefore, do pratikraman