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maintain this much awareness and alertness and do not get
involved in any other discussions.
When you digest my words, they will grow and come out
in speech. That is a different thing. However the words must be
as they are, without any change in tone, intent and meaning for
the listener. The speech must not be made up or fabricated
through imagination and intellect. What is the big hurry for you
anyway, at this time? Do you want to remain as a child of Dada
or do you want to become big and famous?
Questioner: I want to remain as a child of Dada.
Dadashri: That is it. There is fun in remaining as a child.
That way there is a safe side and no danger for you. ‘Dada’ has
to carry you. And if someone says, ‘I have grown up,’ then ‘we’
tell him, ‘yes, then go out and play on your own.’ ‘We’ try to
make him understand, ‘do not become ‘big’ and take off on
your own.’ but if he insists that he wants to, then ‘we’ let him
go. ‘Go ahead! You will come back when you get hurt and learn
your lesson.’ Our Gnan is such that it will not refrain from
teaching you a lesson.
‘You’ simply have to tell your relative-self, ‘Chandulal,
‘we’ know what you are like. So do not trap ‘us’.’ ‘You’ should
talk to him this way. Tell him, “We’ are with you when you
become learned and proficient in this matter, but if you trap ‘us’
in trouble, then you will be sorry!’
This is how everyone has grown up, have they not? A
child will learn to climb and if he falls, he will get up again and
so on. First, he learns to push the walker around for support and
then he learns to walk on his own. So this is the way to learn.
Is this not the only way?
So if you want to complete the work (of your own
salvation), then remember only one thing; if someone asks you
anything, just tell them, ‘I don’t know anything, please go to
Dadaji.’