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Pure Love
Questioner: How should we do it?
Dadashri: Sit down with him and tell him gently that
civilized and respectable people do not do such things. Talk to
him gently and lovingly. But instead what you do is beat him and
scold him. How can this be acceptable?
Without love there can be no solutions. Even when you
grow a plant, you have to nurture it with love. Merely pouring
water over it and shouting at it will not do it. If done with love,
if you talk to it with love, it will give you nice big flowers! So
imagine how much more it can affect humans!
Questioner: But what do I have to do?
Dadashri: If your telling him does not produce any results,
then you should stop. We are being foolish because we do not
know how to say things and if so, we should stop. We lose our
peace of mind and spoil our life to come. Who would do such
a thing?
Not a single person can be improved in this era of the
current time cycle. How can a person improve others while he
himself is so full of faults? When he himself is full of weaknesses,
how can he improve others? To improve others one needs
strength. Here only love is needed.
The Power Of Love
Speak in such a manner that the other person’s ego does
not arise. Whenever you say anything to your child, your voice
should not be authoritative.
Questioner: Yes, you had said that we should stop
talking before the other person shuts us out.
Dadashri: Yes that is true. You should stop before you
get shut out. It is foolishness to persist to the point where he
does not heed you anymore. It should not be like that. I have