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to just let them ride through? What monstrous ego! But no,
these people would beat the rider to the point of killing him!
How can you call these people civilized? If you have a
piece of pure gold and imitation gold, the imitation gold does not
have any of the properties of pure gold, so of what value is it?
The one born on this land of India has infinite inner energies, but
that energy has been scattered and wasted away. Only the
Gnani Purush can turn that energy around and make it useful
again. How did this energy come to be wasted? ‘This man is
working towards an I.A.S. (coveted rank of Indian Administrative
Service) degree, so I will do the same.’ This is how the energy
is dissipated, in trying to imitate others. Just for a maintenance
job, tremendous energy has been lost and that too through
creating tremendous kashaya. Whatever wealth of inner energies
one has is completely depleted when one tries to imitate others.
Do not take away from the balance of inner happiness and
harmony. But people waste away this balance of inner happiness
indiscriminately in trying to imitate others, so how can any
happiness remain? What is better? Living a life of imitation or a
life of authenticity? Children too have learnt to imitate everything.
Indians should not imitate anyone; on the contrary others should
imitate them. But alas, our people started to imitate even the few
hippies that came to visit India. Despite this, India is headed
towards improvement.
Girls today have a lot of moha (illusionary attachment).
One only has to look at them to see their moha and the state of
their illusion. But these very ladies will give birth to a very
worthy generation.
Questioner : What is the reason for that Dada?
Dadashri : The contemptuous attitude and the kashaya
that lead to scorn and contempt for everything and everyone
have diminished in them so it will no longer surface. Once
contempt goes, it brings a person down to normality. Our