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discoveries that they have reached above normal proportion. A
time will come when people will say they do not want any
scientists. These are all preparations for a revolutionary change,
a transformation.
Whenever anything occurs in excess, it leads to its
exhaustion. You feel tired if you have to sit or sleep for too long.
Happiness and misery is relative. If a wealthy man is walking in
the heat, he will seek relief from even the sparse shade of a
thorny tree. But if you tell him to sit under the same tree for four
hours, he will not because he will tire from sitting too long.
A seven and a half feet tall person will be considered
very tall in India, and if Indians were to go to a country where
people are generally seven feet tall, they would be considered
short. Everything is relative in this way. A person appears tall
or short in comparison to another.
If a fifty-five year old person is still in school, people will
ask him when he will marry if he keeps going to school. That
is above normal and it is below normal for a child of two to be
married.
Material Development And Spiritual Development
Foreign countries look upon India as an under-developed
country. I say that they are the ones who are under-developed.
They are fully developed in material things but spiritually they
are under developed. India is materially under developed but
spiritually it is fully developed. I can transform even a pickpocket
of India into god in one hour. But elsewhere where the people
are spiritually under-developed, how can I make them
understand spirituality?
The anger, pride, attachment and greed of people
elsewhere in the world are still in the process of developing
whereas anger, pride, attachment and greed of people in India