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do not you bring about a solution quickly?
If you send this man to get some ice cream, he may come
back empty-handed. If you ask him why, he will tell you that on
the way there he came across a donkey, which is a sign of bad
luck, and that is why he came back empty-handed. Now since
this man has acquired incorrect knowledge, should we not get
rid of it? We should explain to him that God resides in the
donkey as well, so there is no such thing as bad luck and that
his contempt towards the donkey, reaches the God within and
as a consequence, he will incur a tremendous karmic liability.
Caution him not to make the same mistake again. People
cannot adjust because of incorrect knowledge.
Counter-pulley
You should not voice your opinion first; first ask what the
other person thinks. If the other person insists on his viewpoint,
I let go of mine. I only consider one thing, that I hurt no one.
You should take the other person’s viewpoint into consideration,
and not try to force your opinion upon them. I have taken
everyone’s opinion, and only then have I become a Gnani. If
I ever try to impose my viewpoint on anyone, I would become
weak. No one should be hurt because of your opinion. Your
revolutions may be at eighteen hundred per minute and the
other person’s maybe at eight hundred, so if you impose your
opinion on the other person, his engine will breakdown and the
gears will need to be repaired.
Questioner : What do you mean by ‘revolutions’?
Dadashri : It is the speed at which thoughts occur.
Everyone has different revolutions. If something happens, the
mind will show you many things within just one minute, it shows
you many different aspects at a time. All these powerful
presidents have eight hundred revolutions, mine are at five
thousand. Lord Mahavir’s were a hundred thousand!