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as harmful. Opinion creates a new mind. The harm is entirely in making intense mental notes.
Questioner: Please explain the difference between opinions and intense mental note, in detail.
Dadashri: There is no problem if a little of an opinion remains but there should not be even a fraction of a nondha. Nondha means the non-Self( pudgal); nondha is exclusively biased towards the non-Self. When a person makes a nondha, he reverts to the way he was before. When one who has taken Gnan makes a nondha, he is no different from a person who has not taken Gnan.
Questioner: But is opinion not formed only when one makes a nondha of something?
Dadashri: There is always an opinion behind it. We can accept an opinion but there should not be any nondha. When one gives an opinion, that opinion creates a new mind. When you give an opinion like‘ the soup is salty’ then you give rise to the mind. But when you make an intense mental note, then the one who made the soup is made to be the guilty party.
Questioner: What kind of an intense mental note is made at that time?
Dadashri: Many notes such as,‘ He said this to me … he said that to me … he spoke in this manner … he spoke in that manner etc.’ When I make an intense mental note that Chandulal went to a hotel, whose side am I on? On the side of the pudgal. There is grave danger in making a nondha.
Questioner: How is an intense mental note of,‘ This soup is very salty’ made?
Dadashri: Such an intense mental note,‘ the soup is salty’, immediately places the blame on the doer, the person who made it. The nondha sees the other person as a doer and opinion sees only the item.