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Instead of calling yourself a banker with assets of as little as a thousand dollars why not say, 'I am not a banker, you are.'Is this discovery of our' not good?
I asked one person, 'How are you going to run your factory now that your boss has died?' He tells me, 'We will hire a manager.' So one can hire people to manage factories? So why are you crying because the owner is dead? If you can hire such a person, hire such an intelligent person, why not do so? And can this (Gnan) be hired? This Gnan is the real wealth. You can hire people can't you? You can hire a lawyer, can you not? If he charges 5000 rupees, then why not give him 10, 000? He will come running. He can be hired but the Self cannot be hired. And is anyone going to hire the Self? How can they afford that which is priceless? This is a proper and an easy road, is it not?
And why harbor such intellect in such matters? So 'we' have let go from the very beginning in these matters, I had let go of the control of the reigns and tell everyone, 'I do not understand anything!' So 'we' are free! I also say. 'You will not find any intellect in me even if you were to look for it.' They tell me, 'Please don't say that.'
Now we have the control of the 'kite'. Other people's kites' can take a nosedive if they want but our 'kite' is in control and the control is in our hands. Why enter the horse race of these people? Each person to himself; I will take care of myself
And what are you going to do with this misguided intellect (akkal) anyway? You would have sunk very deep for sure had you gone deeper into it. It is good that you stayed away just like me.
People come to me and tell me, you show us a lot of good things and I tell them, 'no', and in the end I even tell them, 'I have forgotten everything. I cannot remember things anymore.'
People like it when I tell them, "There is no substance or competence left in me. 'Otherwise these people with substance and competence' will come to make deals with me. Is this even a place with the Gnani - to make deals? 'We are higher than everyone! Deals are to be made with people of your own caliber. I am above everything and at the same time without any substance and competence. That is why 'we' say, 'What are you looking for in someone who has no substance?' Even to the robbers and thugs 'we' say, 'what is there to take from me: from the one without any substance and competence? In fact I don't even know how to give and so take whatever you want from my pocket, yourself!'
When I was young, people used to scold me and tell me you do not have any substance or competence. 'Now rather than have anyone else tell 'us', 'we' might as well tell ourselves that 'we' have no substance. All the problems will go away if you certify yourself this way before anyone else does. People go around telling you, you have no substance in you,' and you go around trying to show that you are something, now how can it work? Instead, just certify your own self as not having any substance or competence and the problem will be solved.
The racecourse of life When our construction contract business was recognized as being number one in the area, a kind of power entered the mind that my mind was working like a genius. However that too was not akkal (wisdom, right intellect); on the contrary it was foolishness. It was nothing but a museum of inviting troubles lupadhi). Right intellect, wisdom is that which reduces external problems (upadhi); it is where potential problems coming your way gets diverted and end up going to someone else. They go to someone else.
People's methods are all wrong. The practices they use or resort to for progress in life are also wrong. We ran around
