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108 Pratikraman These people make statements like, ‘Don’t steal. Don’t be cunning. Don’t tell lies.’ You cannot make such statements; you cannot make such baseless statements. Is this how you talk? Entire India is devastated and ruined. You have brought it to its very end. ‘I want to do it but I can’t’ – if one’s karma effect unfolds to the contrary, what can anyone do about it? The Lord has said for us to be the Self (swaroop) and know the unfolding karma effect (udayakarma); He did not tell us to ‘do’ anything. He only told us to ‘know.’ Instead, people are complaining, ‘I tried to do it but I could not. I am trying but I am not able to. I really want to do but I can’t.’ Hey, you! But why do you keep ‘singing’ about it without any purpose? Do you know what the self turns into with continued projection that is envisioned (chintavan) of ‘I want to do it, but I cannot’? It will turn into a stone. And here, one is merely trying to perform acts and yet he says over and over again, ‘I can’t do it. I can’t do it.’ How many people say this? Questioner: Everyone, almost everyone. Dadashri: And when one says, ‘I cannot do it,’ he, the Soul, becomes like whatever he envisions (chintavey). So when he says, ‘I can’t do it. I can’t do it,’ he becomes inanimate, lifeless (jada). So in speaking this way, these people will have to become jada. But these poor people do not realize their liability when they say such things and that is why they say it. I am telling everyone not to say it: ‘Hey, you! You cannot say ‘I can’t do it’!’ One should never say it. You are full of infinite energy (anant shakti). When we explain this to a person, thereafter he will say, ‘I am full of infinite energy.’ Otherwise, up until now he kept saying, ‘I cannot do it.’ What? Your infinite energy has gone away? Questioner: No. Dadashri: What is this Gnan saying? ‘Give me energy