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age. Nevertheless if you interact with the elderly, then you have to respect them and those who have advanced in their knowledge, should be revered too.
You must go home on time from satsang. How does it look if you knock on the door at midnight? People at home may tell you to come home whenever you like, but their mind will not leave them alone. The mind will show them all kinds of things. How can you hurt them at all? These are all laws and rules and you have to abide by.
If you get up at two o’ clock in the morning and pray to the Soul, is anyone likely to say anything? No they will not.
Pure Interactions: Right interactions
Questioner: What is shuddha vyavahar( pure interaction) and sada vyavahar( right interaction)?
Dadashri: Pure interaction begins only after Self- Realization and until then it is considered right interaction, sada vyavahar.
Questioner: What is the difference between the two?
Dadashri: Right interaction is associated with the ego. Pure interaction is egoless; it is without any ego. Pure interaction gives you complete dharma dhyana, absence of negative meditative states of arta and raudra dhayana and right interaction gives you only a small fraction of dharma dhyana.
As long as there is pure interaction, there is also shuddha upyog,( i. e. pure awareness). Pure awareness means that You( the Self) remain the Knower and the Observer, of the pure interaction.
Krupadudev has said,“ Collective sectarian opinions and imagination are not right worldly interactions.”