318 Pratikraman
you have to divide it with that very large number. Hence multiplication will continue to occur, but we have the tool for dividing it. Having become a Purush( Self-realized), spiritual effort( purusharth) is our duty( dharma). When you see someone, you are bound to form an opinion. Thus, opinion gets formed and so You should immediately‘ divide’ it by telling‘ Chandulal,’‘ This is wrong, why should you do that?’, and so You will be free. Otherwise, opinions will be formed and bound. Once they are bound, they will give their fruit for sure.( 302)
Questioner: When you say‘ it gives its fruits,’ does that mean it makes one suffer?
Dadashri: What does‘ give fruit’ mean? It means that if you form an opinion about someone, it will continually have an affect on the other person, naturally. He, too, will immediately understand that you feel that way about him. But if you get rid of that opinion, then it will not affect your mind or his mind. If you‘ divide by seven’ as soon as the opinion is formed, then it will go away before it has any effect. Otherwise, nothing goes to waste and its effect cannot be stopped. Everyone’ s conduct is different towards‘ us,’ but‘ we’ do not have any opinion.‘ We’ realize that is just how it is. Do women not know what mother-in-laws are like in this Kaliyug( current time cycle era of lack of unity in thoughts, speech and acts)? So then why form any opinions? It is Kaliyug, so it is always like this.
It is like this: if you get things and circumstances to your liking, it is merit karma( punya); and facing things and circumstances that you do not like is demerit karma( paap). Hence, when the unfolding( udaya) is of demerit karma, you will encounter things or circumstances that you do not like. Whose udaya is it? It is of paap( demerit karma). Now it will give bitter fruit, which will not last long, but if you form an opinion about your mother-in-law during that time, then it will have an effect on her which will continue for a long time. Hence, never form an