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Dadashri: That will go down, as you get insulted. Whatever you have dished out will be returned. The problem lies being a beggar for respect.
Questioner: To be constantly preoccupied laksha with the feeling of not wanting to be insulted; what is that?
Dadashri: Such a laksha where one is constantly concerned about not being insulted is verily the beggary for respect. Otherwise everything gets settled, it comes and goes. One, the Self has nothing to do with it.
The Self: respect and disrespect?
Therefore, respect and disrespect is all the beggary of the pugal physical, the relative self. If someone were to slap 'us', there is no problem.
Questioner: All these talks about respect and insults, who is the one who receives it, who gets the khyal, becomes aware of it? The body is not the one, is it not the atma, the self?
Dadashri: The Atma the Self does not have respect or disrespect. The Self is not a beggar that it will have respect or disrespect. The Self is the Emperor of the entire universe; is the Lord of the Universe.
Questioner: But 'that which is received is received by the self, no?
Dadashri: No, it does not hurt the Atma; it does not touch the Soul, the Self at all.
Questioner: The body is the non-Self anatma, what effect does respect-disrespect have on the non-Self?
Dadashri: What happens when you touch a block of ice with a torch of fire? Will the falme scorch the ice?
Questioner: It will not scorch it, but it will melt the ice.
Dadashri: On the contrary, its quality of cooling cools that other. Similarly, pain and misery does not touch the Self. It does not affect even the body or the Self.
