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some water to it and dilute it. One day Hiraba caught me doing
this and she exclaimed, ‘Oh, what did you do, you put water
in it? Throw it away!’ I told her, ‘You add water to the kadhi
when it is on the stove, and when it boils you know that the
kadhi is cooked, so do you think that it becomes uncooked just
because I add water to it on the table?’ There is nothing to it.
But they would not let us eat kadhi this way; don’t they add
water to the kadhi when it is on the stove?
It is all in the mind. Just because people believe something
should be done in a certain way, they think it becomes ruined
if anything is done contrary to the way they do it. Nothing is
ever ruined. Everything is made of the same five elements- air,
water, fire, earth and space. So nothing is going to be ruined.
Constant Worldly Awareness Led To Akram Vignan
Questioner : But Dada you had so much awareness.
You diluted the kadhi subtly because you did not want to tell
Hiraba it was salty because it would hurt her feelings.
Dadashri : Yes that is right. And many times I had
remained silent when there was no sugar in the tea. People
would caution me and tell me that if I did not say anything,
things would get worse. I would tell them, ‘Just wait and see.’
The next day Hiraba would ask me, ‘ Why didn’t you tell me
there was no sugar in the tea yesterday?’ I would tell her,
“There was no need to tell you because you would find out
when you drank the tea yourself. Now I would have to tell you
if you did not drink tea, but since you do, is it necessary for me
to tell you?’
Questioner : But that calls for tremendous awareness
every passing moment.
Dadashri : Every moment. The awareness was there
twenty-four hours. It was after such worldly awareness, this