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Adjust Everywhere
Purush and then conduct himself, he will know how to
take all kinds of adjustments. The Science behind this says
that, ‘Become vitaraag; do not engage in attachment and
abhorrence.’ It is, in fact, because some kind of inner
tendency inclined towards attraction that attaches (aasakti)
remains within that one takes a beating. In worldly
interaction, those who have become partially indifferent
(ekpakshi-nispruha) are referred to as obstinate. When you
need something, if the other person is obstinate, even then
you have to convince him. At the railway station, if you
need a porter, and if he is hesitant, then you would convince
him by giving an extra fifteen rupees or so. However, if
you do not convince him, then you would have to carry
the bags on your own head, would you not?
In order to bring a settlement with the other person
you would say, “Don’t see law, please settle.” Where is the
time to say, “You do this, you do that”? The other person
may have made a hundred mistakes, even then you should
claim it to be your own mistake, and move forward. In
these times how can you even turn towards the law? In
fact, things have reached rock bottom! Everywhere you
look, there is endless running around and running away!
People have become entangled! When he goes home, the
wife screams and shouts, the children scream and shout;
and when he goes to work, the boss screams and shouts.
When he gets on the train, the crowd shoves him around!
There is no peace anywhere! One needs ease, doesn’t he?
If someone happens to pick a fight, then you should
sympathize with him that, ‘Oh, ho, ho! He must be filled
with so much frustration that he picks fights!’ All those
who become frustrated are weak.
Complain? No, Adjust
It is like this, you should know how to adjust at home