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[20] Awareness When Words are Flowing in Speech…
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of him. The liability involved in making fun of someone is infinitely
greater than directly slapping him. You misuse your intelligence
when you make fun of another person. You take advantage of
your higher intellect to overcome his lesser intellect and thus
make fun of him.
So then God within the other person will say, ‘Are you
taking advantage of him because of his lack of intellect?’ Here,
therefore, you make even God turn against you. Had you slapped
the person on his face, he would have understood immediately
and he would have taken matters into his own hands, but when
you make fun of him, because he has lesser intellect, he is not
able to respond. So God within him knows, ‘Ah ha! You are
cornering him because he is not intelligent enough? Very well
then, come on to the battleground.’ Then the Lord will sort us
out!
Questioner: This is all I have ever done in my life.
Dadashri: But you can still do pratikraman, can’t you?
‘We’ too have done the same thing, but it was wrong. That was
the problem I had. Because the intellect before Gnan was being
restricted, was without right direction; so what could one do?
One will start bullying, won’t he? So this is the advantage of
having increased intellect (Dada being sarcastic), is it not? That
is why the people who make fun of others have to suffer
unnecessarily.
If you laugh at someone because of the way he walks,
God will say, ‘Here! Take this fruit!’ Do not make fun of any
kind at the expense of anyone in this world. All these hospitals
have arisen because of such fun-making (mashkari). These
broken legs and other limbs are a fruit of making fun of others
(in the past life). Mine too (Dadashri had sustained hip fracture)
was the fruit of making fun of others.
That is why ‘we’ say, ‘It is very wrong to make fun of