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have a shop. Otherwise, people keep a note of everything:
‘Chandulal took one pair…Chaturbhai took one pair’. They
write everything down, but they also make an intense mental
note.
We used to keep one notebook in the shop but we would
forget to write in it and so the business suffered. Therefore
making notes improves efficiency of business and brings
precision to worldly interaction, but it will not let you get out of
your worldly life. And now, ‘we’ do not have to trouble
‘ourselves’ by making notes of anything; ‘We’ do not even have
to carry a notebook. What is the point of picking up a pen? It
is good that ‘we’ are so naïve that ‘we’ do not keep any notes.
And therefore, no one keeps any notes about ‘us’. So ‘our’
problem is solved and ‘we’ are free. No note and no problems!
Is that not helpful towards your goal?
Intense mental notes perpetuates the
worldly life
Questioner: It is important Dada but in the worldly life
we have been taught to keep notes.
Dadashri: You need such teachings as long as you want
to remain in the worldly life but if you want to go to moksha, you
need to learn not to keep notes (nondha).
Questioner: In the worldly life one is taught to keep
precise notes of, ‘what he did, what the other person did, and
what I have to do.’
Dadashri: When you keep such notes you become
deeply entrenched in the worldly life (sansari) and the world will
not let you go as long as you maintain such notes. The worldly
life ends when you cease to keep notes.
Questioner: In the worldly life, I am in the habit of
making notes like, ‘this man is very careful and well organized’
or ‘this is what happens when one is careless and disorganized’.