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done if you do not know how to enjoy it? It’s like putting sand
in Basmati rice, for which you paid a lot of money. If suffering
besieges you, you should say to it, “Why have you come here?
I am Dada’s mahatma. You are not to come here, go
somewhere else. You have lost your way.” Suffering will go
away when you say this. If suffering comes your way, do you
have to let it in? You have to tell it to leave. You will not violate
your practice of ahimsa by doing so! If you insult suffering and
unhappiness, it will go away, but you are too kind to them. You
do not have to take your practice of non-violence that far!
Questioner : Will suffering not leave through persuasion?
Dadashri : No. You cannot pacify it or persuade it. You
have to be stern with it. If you try to pacify it, it will oppose you
even more and continue to visit you.
‘Varas aho Mahavirana, shurvirata relavajo,
Kayar bano na koi di, kashto sada kampavajo.’
“You are the glorious heirs of Lord Mahavir, let courage
flow from you all,
Never allow even a trace of cowardice, and let difficulties
tremble in your presence.”
Any suffering or difficulty that crosses your path will
tremble at the sight of you and will wonder how it managed to
get trapped in your home. These difficulties do not own you.
You are their master.
How can you be Dada’s mahatma if difficulties do not
tremble in your presence? You can say to the difficulties, “Why
did only two of you come? Why did five of you not come? I
want to pay you all off.” What does our Gnan say? It says that
the person who insults you does not know ‘You’ (the Self). You
should tell your relative self, “You must have made a mistake.
That is why he insulted you. So now remain calm and do not
get so excited!” If you do this, your karmic debt will be paid