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Enjoy the respect people give you but...
Enjoy the respect people give you but you should not have any desire for it. When someone respects you, when it lands in your plate, enjoy it. Enjoy it leisurely. But you should not harbor a desire for it.
Questioner: But when he 'cashes in the respect, will he not have problems?
Dadashri: What is wrong with cashing in the respect? You can cash it in, it will get used up. The desire, it does not arise again, does it? Enjoy the respect, I am telling you to enjoy it. Are you going to enjoy it 'there'? Are you going to receive any respect in the Siddha gati (abode of the Absolute liberated Souls)? So, whatever you receive here, enjoy it here but do not make a habit of it. Do not become habituated.
Questioner: Does respect not make one fall?
Dadashri: Rather it is the extra pride abhimaan that makes one fall. So there is nothing wrong with enjoying respect others give you, however one should maintain awaress, 'this should not be so.' Now, 'we' have given you the freedom to accept respect but you should not become attached raag to those who give you respect. There is no restriction on accepting respect but you should not have any attachment raag for the one who gives you respect.
Deceit in pride: Distortion of pride
Questioner: Does enjoying respect not weaken the awareness jagruti, Dada?
Dadashri: It will reduce the awareness jagruti definitely. Awareness will not arise where there is deceit in pride maan. When one's deceit is operation in pride, one cannot see one's pride.
