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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