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person; your strength is already evident in situations where you
get along with other people. Inability to get along is a weakness.
Why do I get along with everyone? Your energies will grow in
proportion with the amount of adjustments you make; your
weakness will break by that much. Real understanding will set
in when all other worldly understanding is locked out.
The Gnani will adjust even with a person who is being
awkward. If you observe the Gnani and conduct yourself
accordingly, you will learn how to adjust everywhere. The
science behind this tells you to become vitarag, free from
attachment and abhorrence. You take a beating because you
have subtle attachment within. People who reject and renounce
without consideration of the complete situation at hand are
considered as being awkward. If there is a need on your part,
then you must appease the other person even when he is being
awkward. If while you are at the railway station, you need a
porter, you will somehow have to appease the porter even if it
means giving him a few extra rupees; otherwise you will have
to carry your luggage yourself.
Do not see laws; please settle. Where is the time to tell
people how to do things? The other person may make
hundreds of mistakes, but just tell yourself that the mistake is
your own and move on. Is there any point in looking at the law
in this day and age? Everything has come to a head here, and
very difficult times are coming ahead. Everywhere you look,
people are running around, from one place to another. People
have become trapped; at home, the wife and children complain,
at work the boss complains, and when traveling by train, we get
pushed around in the crowd; there is no peace anywhere.
Surely, we need some peace. If someone fights with you, you
should sympathize with him and try to understand how agitated
he has been to become so angry. To become agitated is to
become weak.