106 Life Without Conflict
Ultimately you may even have to use the water from the gutter!” If you do not adjust and give in to a bandit who is holding you at knifepoint, he will hurt you. Therefore, you must make a decision, then adjust with him and get it over with. Ask him,“ What is your wish? We are on our way to a pilgrimage.” Do you fight with the sewer plant of Bandra when it smells? In the same way, when people smell, do you go to them to complain? Everything that smells is like a sewer, and everything that has a nice aroma is like a garden. Everything that comes to you with a smell, pleasant or unpleasant, is reminding you to remain vitarag( detached) with it.
If you do not adjust everywhere, you will go mad. Ongoing harassment and aggravation with the other person will make you mad. If you keep harassing this dog, he will respect you a few times, but if you overdo it, he will bite you. The dog will come to realize,‘ This man is no good. He harasses me everyday. He has no shame.’ This is worth understanding. Do not argue; just adjust everywhere.
The Worldly Confusion Will Become an Obstacle
First, you have to understand worldly interactions; people suffer a lot because they do not have this understanding.
Questioner: Dada, your spiritual talks are unparalleled, but so are your talks of interactions of worldly life.
Dadashri: It’ s like this: no one has attained moksha without understanding the ultimate facts about the worldly life. It does not matter how priceless the spiritual knowledge is, but without understanding the worldly life, no one has attained moksha, because the worldly life has to set you free. What would you do if it does not set you free? You are a pure soul, but the worldly life has to set you free, does it not? You keep entangling your worldly life and making it more complex. Why