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DISCOURSE S
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"What I am aspiring for, I can attain from this reality', then he soon attains it. Ordinary people have a strong desire for results or fruits. Those who perform action without expecting any reward are either fools or sages. Do you undertake any work without any reward or fruit for it? The desire for results or fruits is natural in human beings. It is human nature to desire for results. Only fools and lunatics do not think of the fruits of their actions. Their minds are not evolved enough to entertain thoughts of fruits or results. They cannot draw a line of demarcation between good and evil results.
In the minds of the yogis who are absorbed in a contemplation of the true form of the soul, the thoughts of results or fruits do not arise. They do not have any desire for it nor do they have any fears regarding it. They keep experiencing spiritual felicity natural and spontaneously. It is not necessary to explain the efficacy of dharma to yogis. They know it. Foolish people and lunatics, of course, do not care for this kind of teaching. Dharma should not be explained to a fool. Dharma should not be explained to lunatics also. The efficacy of dharma is explained here for the sake of those people who are neither fools nor yogis. Just as I do not consider you as yogis, I do not consider you as fools.
ADMISSION OF IGNORANCE IS A FOUNDATION OF KNOWLEDGE
From the audience: “We are all fools !"
Maharajashri : "Fools do not consider themselves fools at any time. Mad people do not consider themselves as mad people at any time. Have you gone to a mental asylum at any time? Not as a lunatic but as a visitor. Have you asked the doctor at a mental asylum at any time, if the mad people consider themselves as mad people ? A stupid person always considers himself as a man of great intelligence. The man who thinks that he is a fool is undoubtedly a man of intelligence. A man who thinks that he is ignorant is certainly an enlightened man. For instance, there is the case of the great Greek thinker. Socrates. The Oracle at Delphi once declared that Socrates was a wise
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