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can there ever be happiness in it?
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Why Protect That Has No value?
This whole world is hollow and without substance. People bicker and fight inside their homes but when they go out they wash their faces before they leave! And if you ask, 'How are you doing Chandubhai?' he will reply, 'Very well.' You fool! There are tears in your eyes and you may have washed your face but your eyes are all still red! Instead, why not just tell people you are unhappy at home. Everyone believes there is happiness in everyone else's home except his or her own. They do not realize that everyone else is crying also. Everyone washes their faces before they leave home. You would find out just how much happiness there is in this world, if people were to leave their homes without washing their faces. If I come outside crying, you do the same and he does the same, then you will realize that this world is nothing but empty. A man buries his father at a very young age, he cries all the way to the crematorium, comes home and takes a shower and that is the end of that! They teach people to take a bath and get clean; that is the world for you. Everyone washes his or her face before leaving the home; they all put up a show, they are all deceivers! Instead it would be better if they all tell the truth openly.
Of all our mahatmas (self-realized people), there will be a rare man who will tell me, 'Dada, my wife beat me up today!' From where did this man acquire such candidness? Such candidness comes because of this Gnan. You can tell 'Dada' everything. Such candidness is the sign of approaching liberation. How else can there be such candidness? One needs to be straightforward if one is to acquire liberation. The husband may get away with telling a lie outside but at home
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he takes a beating from his wife. Even then, outside he will say, 'Oh! That was our daughter the wife was beating!' You fool! I saw it with my own eyes that she was beating you! What is the use of lying? It is all meaningless; instead why not tell the truth? The soul never takes a beating. You are the Soul and so even when she gives a beating it is the body that she beats. No one can insult our soul, because they can only do so if they can see the soul. How can they insult that which they cannot see? On the other hand, even buffaloes can hurt the body, can they not? When this happens do men not openly declare that the buffalo hit them? And is the wife not higher than the buffalo? So what? What reputation are you trying to protect? Did you even have a reputation to begin with? How many living entities are there in this world? Do any of them have to wear clothing? Those with reputation do not need to clothe themselves. Only those who have no reputation wear clothes and hide behind them. And if their clothes are torn they quickly stitch them up. Someone may see! You fools! For how many days can you preserve your reputation by patching all the tears? A reputation that needs mending cannot last. Reputation is only to be found where there is an obliging nature, principles, honesty, and kindness.
This is How the Trap Deepens
Man has to marry for his food! He may think to himself, 'I am the bread winner,' but who will do the cooking? The woman knows that although she knows how to cook, she wonders who is going bring home the money? This is how the two get married and organize a company. After that there will even be children. Once the seed of a squash is planted, will it not naturally give rise to many squashes? A squash will grow at every leaf of the vine. This is the same with
