Aptavani-9 171
for you too. Now, you are done with it, you have nothing to do with it anymore. But now, you are seeing it again through the link( tanto) that you have maintained, and are bringing back the fruition( udaya) of the very karma that has passed and creating an entanglement. Now, that other person is in some other karma all together at this time. Is this not worth understanding? This is very subtle.
There is no closure in this matter of keeping a link( tanto) is there? And it is verily those who keep such links( tantos) that look for closure and justice! Where and how can all this end?
So if someone were to insult‘ us’ yesterday and‘ we’ see him again today, he would appear as a new person to‘ us’; and he is new indeed. Not seeing this is verily our own mistake. We are seeing him in the older form. He is indeed in the new form. One karma is over, and therefore now he is in another karma. Will he be in a new karma or will he be in the same old karma?
Questioner: He will be in another karma.
Dadashri: And we are still in the same old karma. Now how much garbage is that? Do you ever make such mistakes? Do you keep intense mental notes?
Questioner: I had a habit of making intense mental notes, but I do not have it anymore.
Dadashri: So you do not do it anymore, do you? Why waste a notebook unnecessarily? People keep notebooks.
One man tells this person, sitting here,‘ You dance according to your prakruti. You are like a top.’ But even then,‘ we’ did not make a note of it. Later,‘ we’ scolded him,‘ What kind of a man are you? How can you say that to someone like her?’ Yes, she did not make a note of it either.‘ We’ do not make notes.‘ We’ will tell the person directly to his face but then