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Dadashri : The words that you utter will be such that the
other person’s work will be done.
Questioner : Are you talking about relative, material
benefits or real benefits that lead to liberation?
Dadashri : No, not for the body. We should only be
concerned about that which takes us towards Self-Realization.
Thereafter, with the aid of the Real, progress will be made in the
relative realm. You have to develop a bhaavna for doing jagat
kalyan (salvation of the world). You should not say it just for
the sake of saying it. You have to have the bhaavna. People
just merely say these words as if they are reciting slokas (holy
chants).
Questioner : Instead of sitting idle, wouldn’t it be highly
beneficial to do these bhaavnas?
Dadashri : That would be very good. At least all the
negative bhaavs are destroyed. A lot of good comes out of
this.
Questioner : Can you call that bhaavna, a ‘mechanical
bhaavna’?
Dadashri : No. How can you call it mechanical? It is
mechanical when one keeps on repeating it like a parrot, without
awareness.
NOTHING NEED BE DONE, ONE SIMPLY NEEDS
TO UNDERSTAND
Questioner : It is written here, “Give me strength… give
me strength…” Do we get strength just by asking for it?
Dadashri : Of course! These are the words of a ‘Gnani
Purush’. Is there a difference between a letter from the President
and one from an ordinary businessman? Yes. So these are the