Aptavani-9
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Dadashri: How can he confront his problems when there
is weakness of anger-pride-deceit-greed within him? Anger
does not stand-alone. It always accompanies the enemy called
pride (maan). Anger is there to protect maan. Therefore, as
long as there is a presence of pride there will also be a presence
of its bodyguard, anger, for sure.
Questioner: So does that mean that one has to learn to
tolerate insults?
Dadashri: The energy (shakti) to tolerate will come
when one’s pride (maan) goes away; anger is the bodyguard of
pride. Pride has employed a bodyguard and told him to teach
a lesson to anyone who comes to insult. Greed (lobh) also has
employed a bodyguard; it is deceit (kapat) – that verily is
maya itself. That maya will go away when greed (lobh) goes
away. Anger is the bodyguard of pride. If someone tells you,
‘Are you a fool? Don’t you have any sense?’ you should tell
him, ‘Sir, this is not something new; I have always been like
this.’
People try to fight their anger do they not? Some try to
fight their pride. But what does maya (illusion) say? It says, ‘I
have six sons: krodha-maan-maya (kapat)-lobh-raag and
dwesh (anger-pride-deceit-greed-attachment and abhorrence)
and I am the seventh. No one except a Gnani Purush has been
able to wipe out my family till today. No matter how much you
destroy my anger and greed, as long as my son, pride (maan)
is alive; everyone will become alive again.’
The Gnani Purush kills maya’s (illusion’s) son named
pride (maan); He does not actually kill him, he does not even
evict him from his seat. He simply changes the seat for him. If
the Gnani were to kill pride, then he would be guilty of himsa
(violence). The word ‘kill’ implies himsa. There cannot be any
himsa. He will not beat the ego.