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Question: Bhagavan, at times I
come across situations wherein I find it difficult to decide what the possible
right action should be? How can I
make sure that my actions are always right and good?
Answer: So, Oneness does not
talk about right action or wrong action, or good action or bad action. It just
talks about perfect action.
Now, if you were to go inside and see yourself from
there seeing what's happening, you would respond. Now, that response could be pure
violence. You could hit a man. You may scold a man or you may just take
whatever is given to you.
There is no way you can predict your behavior at all. Now,
predictable behavior comes from the mind and we are not talking about that. We're
not here to preach nonviolence or this kind of behavior or that kind of
behavior.
All we are talking is perfect behavior which thereafter
does not cause you to worry about it or causes you pain, and normally such
behavior does not even cause pain to the other person, but albeit secondly.
What we are talking about is that you must go
inside-and we don't call it reaction-the response must come from there.
How it would be, is unpredictable. That's why I often
give the example of you seeing snake devouring a frog. Maybe sometimes you
might save the snake allowing it to devour the frog. Maybe another day you
might save the frog and snatch it away from the snake's mouth and the snake
might die.
Or another day you might just walk off without even thinking
about it. How you would respond is unpredictable. If you are continuously in
touch with yourself or if you are an awakened person your responses are
unpredictable. But whatever way you respond it's perfect for you.
You do not go back to the incident and keep thinking
about it.
So, I have known instances of people for example Enaro
and Mumen [names unclear], people who
are in high states of consciousness, have called the people from the public and
slapped them in public. Because when some serious talk was going on some youths
were found giggling.
The concerned person asked them to come on the stage
and before a huge crowd gave them some resounding slaps. Those two youths were
transformed and they were not upset, they were not angry. The crowd also
appreciated the slapping of the youth and the youths, themselves, were very,
very happy that someone put them up on stage and gave them a thrashing.
Now that was a response from the state. Nobody in their senses could have asked
those youths to come up and give them a slap because that could have become a
big issue.
But the person was in such a state that he felt he
must call them up and do that, and then the event happened and there was overall
appreciation of that. So this is unpredictable behavior. Not when you
contemplate and do that.
So we are not telling here that you must either speak
up or you must keep quiet. Nothing is norm [unclear].
So, it depends. You just go inside and see what's
happening and out of that comes your response. We call that action.
This kind of planned thing where you either stand up
and fight or you control yourself we call it activity, coming from the mind
when the mind is planning. It's looking at the pros and cons, what's good for
you or what may not be good for you, that kind of thing.
We're not condemning it. We call it activity. That's
all. It may create further problems for you. It may solve problems for you. We
do not know.
But then response may also create some problems for
you. We do not know. But what happens is after it is done, you are completely
at peace with yourself. You have no more problems with yourself. You may be
just sitting silent or just getting up and fighting the person. One does not
know.
When we talk of perfect action, we call it action or
we call it response. The other thing we call it reaction or activity.