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Non-Violence
Vignan. This science will take you to liberation. Despite living
with your queens and engaging in wars, nothing will affect you.
You will be able to remain absolutely untouched and separate.’
Such is the Gnan I am giving you.’
Suspicion Perpetuates Mistakes
After this Gnan, one becomes a Pure Soul. When one
understands the nature of the Self, all negative karma or violence
that occur, is not part of the Self. Such an individual has complete
awareness of the Pure Soul.
But as long as one has doubts and feels responsible for the
acts of violence, one should ask ‘Chandubhai’ one’s relative self
to recite the following prayer five times each morning: ‘I do not
want to hurt any living being with my mind, my speech or my
body. This is my absolute resolve’. When you recite this with Dada
Bhagwan as your witness, all the responsibility will then be His.
Those of you who have no doubts need not worry. I have
no doubts, but it is natural for you to have them because this Gnan
has been given to you. There is a tremendous difference in the
way a man relates to his world when he has gone through life
earning and laboring for money and another whose money has
been handed to him.
In reality the Soul that the Gnani Purush has come to know,
can never hurt anyone, nor can it be hurt by anyone. And that is
the nature of the Real Self.
Suffering, Non-suffering and the Self
A man once asked me what he should do to be able to
tolerate mosquitoes. I told him to sit and meditate and just observe
the mosquitoes if they bite him. He insisted that he could not do
that, so then I told him that whenever a mosquito landed on him,
he should say, “I am beyond suffering; suffering is not my nature”
In this way, he would gradually come nearer to his ‘home