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[17] Removing the Root Cause of Opinions
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sometimes even before you see something, or someone.
Therefore, opinion should be destroyed before it takes root.
You should exercise extreme caution with regard to opinions.
Nevertheless, you will still bind opinions, but they should be
immediately destroyed. The prakruti (non-Self complex) creates
opinions and pragnya shakti (the liberating energy of the Self)
destroys them. The prakruti will continue to bind opinions for
some time, but You should keep erasing them. Opinions are the
underlying cause of this problem (bhanjghad).
If ‘we’ were to form an opinion about a person and if that
person were to come here, he will see a change in ‘our’ mind
and he will not see equanimity (samata) in ‘us.’ Before he even
sees ‘us,’ he will understand that there is some kind of change
in ‘us.’ So opinions have this kind of effect. But when You let
go of the opinion, then there is nothing there. ‘We’ do not have
any opinion about anyone and thus ‘we’ experience constant
equanimity. Opinions are bound to be formed, because of the
presence of the prakruti, and they will constantly be formed.
You have to continue to let go of them.
Questioner: How do I get rid of opinions that have been
formed?
Dadashri: To eliminate them, You should tell ‘Chandulal,’
‘You have formed such an opinion about this person and it is
completely wrong. How can you bind such an opinion?’ You will
become free from it when You say this to ‘Chandulal.’
Divide, the Moment You Multiply
It is like this: whenever you multiply a number, with say
seven, then you have to divide it by seven in order to return to
the same number. You want to revert to the original ‘number,’
do you not? You know that it has been multiplied with a certain
number and so you should divide it by the same number. If you
realize that it has been multiplied by a very large number, then