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become liable for your repetition. Instead people cry about broken glass all day long!
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If a mill owner happens to lose his shoe, he keeps saying over and over, "My shoe is lost, my shoe is lost." The foolish man, he is a wealthy man, is it right for him to keep complaining about his shoe in this manner? He should not tell anyone even if he were to lose one shoe every day. Instead, he should think that his shoes get stolen because his punya is ruined. On the contrary, he should keep quiet. But alas, people even bicker over a broken glass. Have you not seen such people?
For countless past lives, people have been 'buying brass, believing it to be gold'. They will realize what they have been doing when they try to sell their gold. No one will give them even a penny for it! Only if your misery and suffering comes to an end, should you accept that you have found a Gnani. Otherwise of what use is a Gnani if he cannot rid you of your miseries? What is the point of sitting with him if your miseries are not destroyed or you cannot find answers to your inner entanglements? Elsewhere all you hear are intellectual discourses and dialogues; however these people (who give discourses) are not at fault. People at large have no understanding or awareness of what is right and what is wrong. What can the light do if moths come fluttering to it? Instead what people do is if they hear something profound which they do not comprehend themselves, they tell others, "Come let us go there, his talk is very profound." They go to the gurus where they don't understand anything. These are all merely intellectual crowds where highly intellectual people become dumb!
Questioner: It is just like the mental hospital that you have been mentioning, right?
Dadashri: Yes, it is a mental hospital but does it look good to call it that? No. But when things reach extremes, we have to say, "It is like the state of a patient in the mental
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hospital." Everyone looks like a patient in a mental hospital. People have lost all understanding of what is good. They do not even think about what is beneficial or detrimental for them. They have no awareness of anything.
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In this 'mental hospital', the mind, the speech and even the conduct of the body has become mad. How can we fix all the three components that have broken down? We may have been able to fix it if just one of the components went bad, but how and from where are we to 'import' all the three components? They are nowhere to be found, are they? But alas everyone will break down by clashing with each other in this 'hospital'. All these 'tops' will break by colliding with each other. This world has become a hospital for the mad.
If you take one hundred households in India, fifty will belong to people who are virtuous and noble and the other fifty will belong to people who lack virtue and nobility. Of the fifty virtuous households, five will have conflicts in it and the other forty-five will not. India should be such! If people were truly wise, the forty-five homes would have no clashes. Out of hundred homes, fifty will have foul-mouthed people who fight all day long but of the virtuous homes only a handful would quarrel and the others would have peace; some 45% will have peace. But today, not from a thousand households but not even from a million, is there a single household free of clashes. That is why 'we' call it a hospital for the mad. There would be peace if religion were to prevail there, but now there is nothing but clash.
A businessman used to drive to work everyday, but one day his car broke down so he had to walk to work. As he walked along he was talking to himself and 'we' saw this; 'We' were intrigued to observe that he was talking and even listening to himself. 'We' wondered, 'What kind of a 'radio' is this?' 'We' went over to him and asked him, "How come you are without a car today? And what were you saying?" He replied,
