Where can the principles of non-dualism be applied, and where should they not be applied? Bhagawan explains with a few practical examples.

Names and forms are momentary. The form of the tiger is momentary. The form of the snake is momentary. As names and forms are momentary, take them as such. However, the principle of non-dualism should not be misconstrued. In your pocket, you have a pen. The other man also has a pen in his pocket. You cannot take another man’s pen from his pocket. Is it proper? No! At the worldly level, your pen belongs to you, My pen belongs to Me. If you slip, you sustain a fracture of your leg. Then you may have a bandage. Your mother has intense love for you. Your mother may feel sad because you are suffering. But it is not possible for her to have the bandage on her leg. Individuals are different, but the pain may be the same for both. You will have the pain of a fracture; your mother will have the pain that you are suffering. But the mother is not having pain of the fractured leg. Mother is feeling sad because of the suffering of the son, not of the fracture. So, you can follow non-dualism in feeling, but not in action.