Aptavani 01

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation

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discoveries that they have reached above normal proportion. A time will come when people will say they do not want any scientists. These are all preparations for a revolutionary change, a transformation.
Whenever anything occurs in excess, it leads to its exhaustion. You feel tired if you have to sit or sleep for too long. Happiness and misery is relative. If a wealthy man is walking in the heat, he will seek relief from even the sparse shade of a thorny tree. But if you tell him to sit under the same tree for four hours, he will not because he will tire from sitting too long.
A seven and a half feet tall person will be considered very tall in India, and if Indians were to go to a country where people are generally seven feet tall, they would be considered short. Everything is relative in this way. A person appears tall or short in comparison to another.
If a fifty-five year old person is still in school, people will ask him when he will marry if he keeps going to school. That is above normal and it is below normal for a child of two to be married. Material Development And Spiritual Development
Foreign countries look upon India as an under-developed country. I say that they are the ones who are under-developed. They are fully developed in material things but spiritually they are under developed. India is materially under developed but spiritually it is fully developed. I can transform even a pickpocket of India into god in one hour. But elsewhere where the people are spiritually under-developed, how can I make them understand spirituality?
The anger, pride, attachment and greed of people elsewhere in the world are still in the process of developing whereas anger, pride, attachment and greed of people in India
are fully developed. They have reached the top limit.
People of foreign countries would be willing to drive you somewhere, even if they had to drive fifty miles each way. Even a casual acquaintance will drive you there and back and not only that he will also pay for your meal. Whereas here, in India, your own nephew will calculate how much it will cost him in gas, oil, and wear and tear on his car. Then he will even lie to you and tell you that he cannot take you because his boss is going to be in town the next day.
Now what does this all mean? It means that in the foreigners, greed is not as developed as it is in the Indians. In Indians it is so highly developed that it will last for up to seven generations. And what is the level of greed in foreigners? Their greed is limited to their own needs. When their children turn eighteen they want them to move out and live on their own. If married couples have differences they will resort to a divorce, whereas in Indians their attachment is fully developed. There was a couple in their eighties who fought with each other their entire married life. They would bicker with each other all day long. When the old man died, the old lady was performing the ritual of saravani, which is performed on the thirteenth day after death. As she placed various items for offering in the rituals, she would say, "This was your uncle's favorite sweet, this is what he liked..." When I asked her why she was doing all this when she fought with him every day, she replied, "Things are always so. However, I will never find a husband like him again. I want him to be my husband in every life." In Indians, attachment too has reached to the top!
Prakruti : Natural And Deviant Foreigners are spontaneous, impulsive and natural. Natural and spontaneous means that if there is a docile cow, she will not hurt anyone, even if a child were to grabs hold of her horns.