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are the ones, which create a problem. There is no problem with
the smaller ones. Do you think you can do this?
I do not have any tubers within me, thus I am considered
nirgranth (without tuber). Human beings are like a piece of
wood full of knots; one cannot even make any ‘furniture’ out of
them! When these knots become excessive, they express
themselves as tumors in or on the body.
The mind is quite separate from the Self and can never
become one with it. When you have pleasant thoughts, you are
deluded to believe that it is you who is doing the thinking and
your thoughts are good. And when the thoughts are unpleasant
you say that you have these thoughts even when you do not
want them. What does that suggest? When the thoughts are
pleasant you claim to be the thinker and when they are unpleasant
you say, “What can I do?” If you were the thinker and the
thoughts were under your control then you would only think
pleasant thoughts. Nobody would entertain unpleasant thoughts.
But that does not happen, does it? Both, the pleasant and
unpleasant thoughts will come.
Inspiration Of Action Is Through Mind
There are those who claim that the God within them
inspires them to steal. The fools! Do they mean to say that God
is the guilty one, while they are innocent? Would God ever give
such an inspiration? God neither inspires one to steal nor does
he inspire one not to steal. Why would he inspire one to steal
and become the thief Himself? The principle is that the one who
inspires to steal is the thief.
Do you think God meddles in this way? He is the Knower,
the Observer and is in permanent bliss. He sees and knows
everything. So then where does the inspiration come from? It is
when a person’s tuber to steal, sprouts from within that he will