Aptavani-9
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Questioner: That is correct.
Dadashri: And the human nature is to be competitive.
Are people not competitive?
Questioner: Yes they are. That becomes cheap.
Dadashri: There is competition everywhere. Even at
home, if an argumentative person comes along, he will start a
competition between the husband and wife. If the wife says
something, the husband will tell her, ‘You be quiet, you did it this
way and I am going to do it this way…’ Hey! Both the horses
have started running? Who is going to give you the prize? That
is why ‘we’ say, ‘We’ do not know how to do things the way
Hiraba knows.’ So ‘we’ let her run. Run. Run as much as you
want to! Even Hiraba says, ‘You are naïve (bhoda).’ I tell her,
‘Yes that is fine.’
People suffer because they compete. They enter
competitions. Just watch the competition; you have to simply
‘see’ which horse comes first. When one continues to simply
‘see’, then the ‘seer’ (jonaar) has no pain or suffering. Those
who enter a ‘racecourse’ have to suffer the pain. So it is not
worth entering a ‘racecourse.’
Criticism ruins everything for the one who
criticizes
Secondly, you should no criticize (do teeka of) anyone;
the one who criticizes, hurts himself. Whatever anyone does, the
person who criticizes him will ‘stain his own clothes’, and then
he will ruin his body as he goes deeper into the criticism. If he
goes even deeper, he will ruin his heart. So criticism is a tool that
ruins people. You should not get involved in it. Know things for
the sake of knowing them but do not get involved in anything.
You have not attained this human life to criticize anyone. What
is more, it is not worth making an intense mental note (nondha)
of anyone that criticizes you.