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170 Aptavani-9 Questioner: We have made a habit of making intense mental notes only. Dadashri: Yes, but that habit will have to be broken, will it not? Until now you were ‘Chandulal’ and now You have become ‘Shuddhatma’. So if that has changed, should this not change too? Will You not have to let go of the intense mental notes? How long can you keep making such notes? ‘We’ do not have any kind of notes, no matter what anyone might say. From the very beginning, ‘we’ have not kept any notes. What do worldly people call that? They call it dissipation of previously held opinions (purvagraha). Call it what you will, call it prejudice or anything else, but keeping intense mental notes is harmful. Intense mental note itself is a tanto. How can there be even the slightest of misery? If there is any misery, it is due to nondha (mental notes). How can there be any misery in the ocean of bliss? Is this Gnan not the ocean of bliss? Questioner: It is Dada, it is. Dadashri: But do you still not make intense mental notes? Questioner: Dada, they linger on. Dadashri: Do not harbor them anymore and if that happens, erase them. To keep a tanto means to be obstinate. It means to insist! Don’t you think that people come and say things to ‘us’ too? Questioner: But what is the reason to keep a tanto (link of intense mental note) now? Dadashri: Yes, keeping a tanto has not helped; it has only caused the account of karma to fill up. Why keep a note of changing karmas? What is the justice of nature when someone insults you? That person insults you due to the fruition of your karma. The time of expression of that karma is over for him, and it is over