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Aptavani-9
to deliberately lose that path, it only happens unknowingly. No
one will deliberately lose the path of liberation.
The deception that deludes and throws one
off the track of liberation
If you get into an argument with someone in the presence
of a third person, when you meet that third person again, would
you not ask him what the other person you argued with was
saying about you after you left?
Questioner: Yes, that happens. What is it called?
Dadashri: Such a thing will completely throw you off the
path of liberation. ‘What was he saying about me?’ if such need
to know remains within, it can ruin your path of liberation.
Questioner: How come? Why is that so?
Dadashri: It is a very treacherous and an awfully wrong
path.
Questioner: But in that situation which element (tattva)
is playing a role?
Dadashri: Why do you have to ask such a question? Is
one a thief (did something wrong) that he needs to ask, ‘what
he was talking about me?’ He has no faith in himself that is why
he has to ask someone, ‘what was he saying about me, after I
left?’
Do I ever keep a watch behind me asking, ‘what was he
saying behind my back?’ I do not have any problems regardless
of what he says about me. I am unaffected even if he were to
say it right to my face. A person asks this because there is
kapat (deceit) within.
Questioner: Is that also called kapat (deceit)?
Dadashri: Yes, That is why he is asking the third person,
‘what was he saying after I left?’