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since it is meant to be cooked, will you not have to cut it? You cannot say don’ t cut it because it looks too good to eat. If you want to cook it you will have to let go of its‘ good looks’. India currently is developing, as it has never done before. Mostly everyone’ s conduct has degraded and consequently only about two or five percent of people have conduct that has any worth. Otherwise everyone is consumed with doubts, uncertainty, bickering and contempt. They are contemptuous towards the lower cast people, towards other people, towards their own family. There is contempt towards disciples who appear to fall short in their prescribed conduct; everywhere you look, there is contempt. This land had become spoiled. The improvement you see in the current generation is helping to reduce the uncivilized qualities of the earlier generation. Whatever rudeness they had has diminished and they have begun to develop a different kind of rudeness. People of the past did not like this. In the days gone by there was nothing but contempt. The condition of India had become very unruly and uncivilized; this is because people had not thought things through. This state of India could not be called devout or religious. The entire lot was not looked after or nurtured properly and hence the chaos. The current generation is now being nurtured and cared for.
The current generation may appear‘ this way’ but really they are in the process of being cultured. This is always the case; the pendulum always swings too far before a reform. Nowadays if children go out and enjoy themselves, parents do not ostracize them, as did the parents of the past. Today the parents will not have too much aversion towards their children dining out in restaurants and enjoying themselves outside the home. But in the past they used to react with intense disgust and scorn.‘ We’ ask you what problems you have with restaurants that you behave in this manner. What kind of people are these? Had the Lord said for people to become depressed in this manner? What are the teachings of the vitarag Lord? The Lord has said that