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All Speech Is a Taped Record
If you get hurt because you bumped into a table, you do
not consider the table at fault. But, if someone hurts you, you
see him or her as the guilty one responsible for the act. When
a dog barks at you, but does not hurt you, you put up with it.
In the same token, if a person does not harm you but merely
barks at you, should you not put up with him also? To bark
means to speak. Don’t they sometimes make a comment like,
“This woman barks a lot!”? Even lawyers bark in the
courtrooms, do they not? The judge watches two lawyers bark.
Do lawyers not bark without being emotionally involved? Inside
the courtroom, they make all kinds of accusations against each
other and we feel that the two of them will get into a fight, but
outside the courtroom, the two sit and leisurely drink tea
together!
Questioner : Is that called ‘fighting dramatically’?
Dadashri : No, that is called ‘parrot play’. No one other
than a gnani knows how to act dramatically. Parrot play is
where people watching the interaction between the two, feel
that they are going to kill each other, but in fact they are merely
pecking at each other with their beaks, they peck without
hurting each other.
Have I not said that all speech is a recording (tape)? If
a recording keeps saying, ‘Mani has no sense…Mani has no
sense,’ then you too should sing along with the record, ‘Mani
has no sense!’
Pratikraman Reveals the Knot of Attachment
You should do pratikraman for your husband throughout
the day as you do your work. You can clear up six months
worth of revenge in just one day. Even if you do half a day’s
worth of pratikraman, you can be sure that you have cleared