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he can do to become happy and what actions on his part bring
unhappiness. Not knowing what is in his best interest, he tries
to imitate others. Who should one imitate? One should imitate
the one who is intelligent. But there is nobody with such
intelligence around. The reason for this is that as long as the
belief of ‘I am Chandulal’ exists, you are an imitation yourself.
Only the real One (the Gnani Purush) merits imitation. What
would you gain from imitating an imitation? Realization of the
Real will give results.
Only the Gnani is Real, all others are imitations. You
should never mimic others. It is fashionable nowadays to imitate
others. People imitate the way they walk, the way they talk,
sleep or sit.
In Satyug (the era of the golden age) people were aware
of their Self-interest in their worldly life. In those days there was
no impurity of conduct. People were virtuous. But nowadays
there is immoral conduct everywhere and so how can there be
any awareness of one’s Self-interest? People have learnt adverse
conduct by watching others. No one has ever sought within and
used what really exists within (the Self).
As your awareness of your Self-interest (for the Soul
only) grows, your speech will start to become free of attachment.
It will begin to become pure and everyone around you will
begin to accept it whether they are friends or foe.
In every passing moment you should have the awareness
of that which hurts or helps your Self-interest. There are only
two things you have to be aware of : who you are and what
in the relative life is good or bad. The pure Self will never
deceive or delude anyone. It is only the worldly life that is
deceitful and because of this you should be extremely cautious
and keenly aware of what is good and bad for your Self-
interest. No one would drink insecticide (poison) on purpose –