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Dadashri: There are many things in the body. There are thirty-two teeth. A tongue that works the whole day but does not get crushed between the teeth. So it is more than enough if you increase this much mamata towards the body.
Questioner: What is the benefit in keeping this much mamata?
Dadashri: When you keep this much mamata for the body, there is an adjustment for the body. There is arrangement for everything the body needs. Everything is orderly. What the eyes need, what the ears need, what the stomach needs, everything will get what is needed.
Questioner: What if the mamata 'my-ness' gets focused exclusively on the body?
Dadashri: When that happens, just relax and go to sleep peacefully! But people do not even sleep peacefully.
Questioner: But people's mamata is spread out is it not?
Dadashri: But at whose expense are they extending it? Everyone has desires, do they not? How much land will a farmer desire? And there is a limitation on the amount of land there is, is there not? People's desire for land is endless. One person will say, 'I want five-hundred acres.' Another will say, 'I want one hundred acres' and a third person will say, 'I want hundred acres.' How can this be possible? People suffer miserably in the process but achieve nothing.
Remove mamata through understanding
One man had a beautiful bungalow. He started to cry when talks about selling it came up. He said, 'Do not sell this bungalow, no matter what.' He had to sell it anyway because of financial problems. After the transfer of papers, the bungalow burnt down. Someone asked him, 'Hey did your bungalow burn down?' He replied, 'What do I have to do with it?' The young man replied, 'But that was your bungalow!' so the older man says, 'But I had sold it. Now it was such a wonderful bungalow that he used to live in, why did his mamata towards it go away a day later?
