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hospital.” Everyone looks like a patient in a mental hospital.
People have lost all understanding of what is good. They do not
even think about what is beneficial or detrimental for them. They
have no awareness of anything.
In this ‘mental hospital’, the mind, the speech and even
the conduct of the body has become mad. How can we fix all
the three components that have broken down? We may have
been able to fix it if just one of the components went bad, but
how and from where are we to ‘import’ all the three
components? They are nowhere to be found, are they? But alas
everyone will break down by clashing with each other in this
‘hospital’. All these ‘tops’ will break by colliding with each
other. This world has become a hospital for the mad.
If you take one hundred households in India, fifty will
belong to people who are virtuous and noble and the other fifty
will belong to people who lack virtue and nobility. Of the fifty
virtuous households, five will have conflicts in it and the other
forty-five will not. India should be such! If people were truly
wise, the forty-five homes would have no clashes. Out of
hundred homes, fifty will have foul-mouthed people who fight all
day long but of the virtuous homes only a handful would quarrel
and the others would have peace; some 45% will have peace.
But today, not from a thousand households but not even from a
million, is there a single household free of clashes. That is why
‘we’ call it a hospital for the mad. There would be peace if
religion were to prevail there, but now there is nothing but clash.
A businessman used to drive to work everyday, but one
day his car broke down so he had to walk to work. As he
walked along he was talking to himself and ‘we’ saw this; ‘We’
were intrigued to observe that he was talking and even listening
to himself. ‘We’ wondered, ‘What kind of a ‘radio’ is this?’
‘We’ went over to him and asked him, “How come you are
without a car today? And what were you saying?” He replied,