Questioner: Dada, when you say we must avoid
clashes, does that mean that we have to tolerate it?
Dadashri: To avoid clashes does not mean to tolerate. If you do tolerate it, how much will you tolerate? To tolerate is the same as compressing a spring. How long can a spring remain compressed? So definitely do not learn to tolerate, learn how to bring about a solution. In the ignorant state, one indeed has to tolerate. Then one day, the compressed spring recoils and causes a lot of damage. But that is indeed the law of nature.
There is indeed no such law of this world that you have to tolerate because of someone else. Whatever you have to tolerate due to others is indeed due to your own karmic account. However, you do not know from which [karmic] ledger and from where this stock is coming, so you assume that it is something new being directed at you. No one would ever give out anew; that which had been given out in the past is being returned. There is no concept of tolerating according to our Gnan (Knowledge of the Self). Examine through this Knowledge that, ‘The other person is a pure Soul. Whatever has come to me is due to the unfolding of my own karma, the other person is only a nimit (an apparent doer who is simply instrumental in the process of unfolding karma).’ Then this Knowledge itself will solve the puzzle for you.
Questioner: So does that mean I have bring settlement in my mind that, ‘It is the stock of karma that has been returned’?
Dadashri: The other person himself is a pure Soul, and this is his prakruti (non-Self complex). The prakruti is giving this effect. You are a pure Soul and the other person too is a pure Soul. Now both are settling all their accounts with each other. In that, it is due to the unfolding karma of this prakruti that he gives something. That is why ‘we’ have said, “It is the unfolding of your karma and the other person is merely a nimit.” When he gives it to you, your karmic account has become cleared. When you have this solution, there is no need to tolerate anything!
If you do not elucidate it in this way, then what will happen if you continue to tolerate? One day that spring will rebound. Have you seen a spring rebound? My spring used to rebound many times. I would be tolerant for days, and then when it would bounce back, I would kick up a storm. This was in the state of ignorance; I am aware of it. It is in my attentive awareness. That is why I am telling you “Do not learn to tolerate.” It is in the state of ignorance that one has to tolerate. Whereas here, you should elucidate ‘what will be the consequences of this’, ‘what is the cause behind this’; you have to look systematically into your [karmic] ledger. Nothing ever happens outside of the [karmic] ledger.
Dadashri: To avoid clashes does not mean to tolerate. If you do tolerate it, how much will you tolerate? To tolerate is the same as compressing a spring. How long can a spring remain compressed? So definitely do not learn to tolerate, learn how to bring about a solution. In the ignorant state, one indeed has to tolerate. Then one day, the compressed spring recoils and causes a lot of damage. But that is indeed the law of nature.
There is indeed no such law of this world that you have to tolerate because of someone else. Whatever you have to tolerate due to others is indeed due to your own karmic account. However, you do not know from which [karmic] ledger and from where this stock is coming, so you assume that it is something new being directed at you. No one would ever give out anew; that which had been given out in the past is being returned. There is no concept of tolerating according to our Gnan (Knowledge of the Self). Examine through this Knowledge that, ‘The other person is a pure Soul. Whatever has come to me is due to the unfolding of my own karma, the other person is only a nimit (an apparent doer who is simply instrumental in the process of unfolding karma).’ Then this Knowledge itself will solve the puzzle for you.
Questioner: So does that mean I have bring settlement in my mind that, ‘It is the stock of karma that has been returned’?
Dadashri: The other person himself is a pure Soul, and this is his prakruti (non-Self complex). The prakruti is giving this effect. You are a pure Soul and the other person too is a pure Soul. Now both are settling all their accounts with each other. In that, it is due to the unfolding karma of this prakruti that he gives something. That is why ‘we’ have said, “It is the unfolding of your karma and the other person is merely a nimit.” When he gives it to you, your karmic account has become cleared. When you have this solution, there is no need to tolerate anything!
If you do not elucidate it in this way, then what will happen if you continue to tolerate? One day that spring will rebound. Have you seen a spring rebound? My spring used to rebound many times. I would be tolerant for days, and then when it would bounce back, I would kick up a storm. This was in the state of ignorance; I am aware of it. It is in my attentive awareness. That is why I am telling you “Do not learn to tolerate.” It is in the state of ignorance that one has to tolerate. Whereas here, you should elucidate ‘what will be the consequences of this’, ‘what is the cause behind this’; you have to look systematically into your [karmic] ledger. Nothing ever happens outside of the [karmic] ledger.
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