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'No, Dada has been there and I believe him and his experiences. Thank you very much. I do not such a race.'
A relative of mine, while talking about money, tells to me, 'You have done well, you have made good money in the business' I told him, 'I really do not have any such thing; it is you who has done very well. You have factories etc. How can I compare myself to where you are! I do not have the skills that you have; you were able to accumulate so much wealth. I do not know anything about this. I only know about the other things (Self realization). There was nothing left to discuss any further when I said that. There was nothing to compete, was there? There was no relation left. Why would I want to enter into competition spardha with them?
People are always competing in this way, but how can I run with them? Let them win the prize. You just observe them. What happens when you compete against them? You end up hurting yourself so that is not for you.
The prize goes to the winner, the rest die panting
If I am invited to a wedding of an acquaintance and I am seated in the middle, they will ask me to move and make room for some Jaichandbhai or some other person, then some doctor or someone else will come along. I would get tired of being moved this way over and over again and end up sitting in the back. So I stopped sitting in the front altogether. I said to myself, 'I cannot afford to do this. I do not want to compete (for a seat) with anyone. Only the winner wins the prize, others do not.' So then they would come and tell me, 'We have kept a seat for you in the middle because you are the uncle. Why do you not sit there? Why do you move around or stand in the back? It does not look good for the order and pomp of this wedding' I tell them, 'No it does not look bad. People know me and they understand that I am a man of God and that I am not in tune with worldly things. But they would insist and say, 'No but it makes us look bad.' So then I made one of them understand, I told him, 'Normally I would not say anything but since you ask I will tell you the truth. If I were to sit in the middle there, and if the jeweler Laxmichand were to come along, I would have to move. Then I would have to move again when Maganbhai Shankarbhai comes. So I have to keep changing my seat in this way, so instead of suffering insults this
