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Aptavani-9
What is within ‘our’ understanding? Is there not a
difference between your understanding and ‘ours’? ‘We’ are not
affected by any pain or misery; what is the reason behind this?
It is because ‘our’ understanding is within ‘us’. ‘We’ do not
drag in any ignorance (agnan) from outside, whereas others
drag in worldly understanding (agnan) from others. What do we
have to do with others? Everything is under the control of
vyavasthit (scientific circumstantial evidences). It is a karmic
account. Nothing is going to be changed in this account. Can
any changes in the ‘book’ of karmic accounts be made from the
outside? Then what is all this fuss about? And if the wife is upset
and non-communicative (risavu), only the one who reacts (the
risad) to this can see her as being so. The Self would not see
the one who becomes upset and non-communicative. Only the
one prone to be upset in reaction (risad) will see it as such. The
risad is the one seeing the one who is upset. Otherwise, how
can