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Life Without Conflict
partner? Wherever there is a potential for a conflict, you must
be understanding and find a solution. Why do you have conflicts
with people you have to live with?
A Science Worth Understanding
Questioner : What should we do if we do not want to
get into a conflict but the other person comes to pick a fight?
Say one is very careful and aware, and the other is bent on
fighting, is conflict not inevitable?
Dadashri : How long can a person fight with a wall? If
you were to run into a wall, what should you do to it? Should
you fight with it? Similarly, those with whom you come into
conflict are walls. What should you do in that situation?
Recognize and accept they are walls. Then there will be no
problems.
Questioner : If we remain silent, the other person may
mistake our silence as admission of our guilt and in turn fight
even harder.
Dadashri : This is your belief only. If a man gets up to
go to the bathroom in the night and bumps into the wall, does
that mean that the wall bumped into him because he remained
silent?
Whether you say something or not has no bearing on
anything. It is not true that your silence has any effect on the
other person and neither is it true that your speech has any
effect. Everything is simply interplay of scientific circumstantial
evidences. No one has even the slightest authority or power in
this world, so who is going to get away with anything? If this
wall had the power to do anything, then so would the body. Do
we have the authority or the power to fight with this wall? In the
same way, what is the point of getting angry and fighting with
people? The other person definitely does not have the