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Questioner: Then what does it affect?
Dadashri: Who is the one that suffers it? It is the ego! It is the ego that suffers. Nothing touches the Self. The Self does not accept anything that is not its own.
How can anyone insult You when he does not know You?
What happens if someone were to insult Chandulal? He will not be able to sleep at night, will he? It will keep bothering him from within. He will feel the whacks all night long. The person who insulted him sleeps peacefully while Chandulal feels the hurt and will not be able to sleep. What kind of weakness is it that does not let you sleep when someone insults you? Why should You not sleep just because someone insults you? And besides, it is not You that was insulted, it is someone else. If they insulted the You, you should not tolerate if, but did not insult 'You'. Then why fret over it? Someone else is being insulted and You take it personally. You should not take it as 'I am being insulted', should You? Yes, nobody should insult You. But no one will insult You either. How can they when they do not even know You? They know Chandulal but not You.
When the person insulting, is regarded as someone who obliges; then your desire for respect maan will come end. Who is to be insulted? 'Ambalal Muljibhai' 'Insult him as much as you want. What relation do I have with him? He is our neighbour' If he is hurt and cries, I will pacify him.
But the poor man will not get any sleep because he believes “I am insulted'. Otherwise, there is such a tremendous energy in each and every Indian. All they need is someone to awaken it for them. Still, look at how helpless people have become? Wherever you see, you see them standing in cues. That is how helpless they have become. Otherwise, what were these people like? If they felt a slightest of shun in being invited somewhere, they would refuse to go. But look at them now! They drag themselves everywhere and stand in lines. If you ask them, "Why are you waiting in a line?' They will say, 'We have to take a bus.' Why do you have to go by bus everyday? Do you not know how to find an alternative and an independent way of going? They will ask, 'What other way can I find when I have to work?' So the whole life is fractured. Otherwise, in the past they would not
