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harbors vengeance as a reaction to conflict. If interactions go
beyond the limits, then vengeance will surface. Whatever the
embodied soul, whether it is a snake, a scorpion, a cow or a
bull, they harbor vengeance. This is because every living being
has a Soul within and the power of the Soul is the same in every
living being. It is because of the body complex weakness (the
relative-self) that one has to tolerate suffering and when a
person experiences suffering, he cannot help but harbor enmity
and that enmity will avenge itself in the next life.
Tolerate? No, Find a Solution
Questioner : Dada, when you tell us to avoid conflict,
does that mean we have to tolerate everything?
Dadashri : Avoiding conflict does not mean having to
tolerate, and if you do, how much and for how long will you
tolerate? Tolerance is like compressing a spring; how long can
it remain compressed? Rather than tolerating, you must find a
solution.
In the absence of Gnan people have no choice but to
tolerate everything. However, when one day that ‘spring’
breaks free of the load it is bearing, it will topple everything in
sight; that is the principle of nature.
There is no law of nature that says you have to be
tolerant. Whatever you have to tolerate because of someone,
is really your own karmic account. But, you do not have the
knowledge of past accounts and that is why it appears to you
that the other person is dishing out something new; you
perceive him as the doer. Nobody is dishing out anything new.
They are simply returning what was dished out to them. Our
Gnan does not require you to tolerate anything. With the
application of this Gnan, you simply have to realize that the
other person is a pure Soul (Shuddhatma) and that whatever