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(32) The Habit of Watching Television (TV)
... What Is Important at That Time?
Dadashri: There is satsang every Sunday, close to where you live. Why don't you attend?
Questioner: On Sundays, I have to watch TV Dada!
Dadashri: What connection do you have with TV? You have bifocals now, and you are still watching TV? In our country, you do not even need to watch TV or see plays, because it is all happening on the streets outside your door. Don't you see it?
Questioner: It will all end when we get there, will it not?
Dadashri: Lord Krishna has said the same thing in the Gita, that humans are wasting away their precious time meaninglessly. Going to work to feed the family is not meaningless. Alas, until one attains the other vision (of the Self), this vision (worldly vision) is not likely to leave, is it?
When would a person rub stinking mud over his body? It is when he feels a lot of burning sensation. Similarly, the TV, the movies, etc., are like the stinking mud. You do not gain anything with substance from them. I do not have a problem with television; you are free to look at anything you want to. But say you had a choice between five to ten minutes of TV or five to ten minutes of satsang, which would you prefer? If you have an exam at eleven, and you have to eat at eleven, what would you do? That is the kind of understanding you should have!
