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anything above normal is poison and below normal is poison. People had become 'above normal' and gone to the extreme in every manner and consequently there was no limit to the evil in their conduct. The wickedness in people's conduct today is much better than that compared to that of the past their vice is open and exposed. Today, they openly support naked dancing. In the past all the vices were covert and hidden. The whole country had become just like that and that is why we have so much suffering today. This land has taken a terrible suffering.
Even when a woman becomes a widow, people look upon her with contempt to no end. Not even uncivilized people would do so; they would look upon her with compassion that she has lost her support. People should understand that the poor woman is suffering because she has no one to depend on People should have compassion for her because her happiness came from her husband. But alas they bombard contempt even upon a widow. Nowhere else in the world can you find the kind of contempt they have for the untouchables. Everywhere there is nothing but terrible contempt; how can you call this a civilized country?
When I was young the older folks used to say that the younger generation has become bad. I in turn would question them about what their grandparents used to say about them when they were young. This is a kind of wildness; this wildness has continued from time immemorial. They claim we should do exactly as they did. 'You have to jump into the same well as we did", is what they say. You argue with them and tell them there is no longer any water in that well, there is only large rocks and snakes and that you will die if you were to jump into it now. There used to be water in the well before, but they are telling you to jump in the very same well now. They tell you to fall in only the Vaishnav's well or the Jain's well. For goodness sake, for how long can we continue to jump into such wells? They insist that we do the same as they did. For heavens sake, we tell
them, we do not see any radiance on your faces and you do nothing but kashays all day long. And when they go to eat at someone's house, all they think about is they got a free meal. When these developed people of India dine at someone else's home, the knowledge that presents to them is, "Today I am getting a free meal so I should fill myself up!' Such are the so called developed elderly of India. And some of these people would starve themselves for a day or two before their day of the dinner invitation so that they would not use up their own food at home and when they eat at other people's home, they would eat enough to last them for two more days! All they are concerned with is getting the most out of a free meal. Just imagine how all they are concerned with is getting the most out of a free meal. Just imagine the thieving tendencies they harbor. They invariably suffer the consequences of these very tendencies and actions. The contempt these older people had towards widowed women has come to haunt them. These very widowed women, who were abused, have come as their divorced daughters who come home. These very daughters have brought tremendous misery to their fathers. These very widows have come back as their daughters for repayment. Why do these women not come to my home and harass me? It is because I was not like these people.
A widowed woman is to be called "Gangaswarup' (to be revered as the holy Ganges). How can one ever disrespect her? They address these women as, "Gangaswarup, and yet if they happen to come across path with a widow, they curse her and say, "I am going to have bad luck. I was on my way to a very important job, but now I will have bad luck." Such wild and uncivilized people! Such people should be hung by their necks! But the Lord has said, "You should not hang them. Do not take this responsibility in your hands." Natural law always prevails; the law of nature says, "I will handle these people without fail." This has always been my principle. Do not take the
