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Aptavani-9
Dadashri: It is not even the correct ‘paper’ so what is
the point of looking for a mistake when the paper is not correct
in the first place? We can consider the mistakes and faults if the
paper is correct, but when one says ‘What do I care?’ - that
paper is not correct; it is wrong, it is one hundred percent
wrong!
Questioner: You have said, ‘To say, ‘What do I care?’
is a violation in the eyes of God as well as nature.’
Dadashri: That person is guilty all over. There is nothing
else left for him as far as mistakes and liability is concerned.
When his paper is not even worth reading what is the point of
looking for mistakes? When do we consider mistakes? It is
when one’s paper has any worth. But here the paper is
worthless so what is the point in looking for mistakes? One
takes on the gravest liability when he says, ‘What do I care?’
Questioner: How can we get out of the entrenchment of
the attitude of ‘what do I care?’ that has taken hold form within?
Dadashri: ‘What do I care?’ It is the lowest degree there
is and the way to get out of it is to walk back the path that lead
you in that wrong direction; you have to use that same path in
order to come out of it.
Questioner: So what did you say we had to do in turning
back? What has to be done on the way back?
Dadashri: The road that brought you here is the road
that will take you back. How do I know which way you went
in? You know which path you took. Go back the way you came
and it will go away.
Questioner: So what does one do in that?
Dadashri: You do pratikraman over and over.
Questioner: Does infatuation (aasakti) not decrease by
saying, ‘What do I care?’ Does excessive aasakti not go down
by saying this?