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needs to become a dhuni in his own Self so that dhyata (the
meditator), dhyeya (the focus or the goal) and dhyan (the action
that links the two), become one.
Questioner : Is being whimsical the same thing as being
a dhuni?
Dadashri : It is related to a dhuni. A Dhuni does not care
about money. If a dhuni were to come to ‘us’, his work would
be done. People do not let dhuni people be happy in this world;
they will keep goading and picking on them. Poor worshippers
take a lot of abuse. Poor Kabir took a lot of abuse from people.
Kabir once felt pity for a young couple walking around in Delhi,
each with a baby boy and girl in their laps. He was overcome
with pity for the state of this couple, wondering how they were
surviving and so he climbed up on a hill and began to sing loudly:
‘Uncha chaddha pukariya, boomat maari bahot,
Chetanhara chetajo shirpey aayi mot.’
‘Climbing a hilltop, I have yelled countless number of times
Beware Oh nurturers of life, death lurks around the corner.’
What are you roaming around with kids at your waist
when there is an impending doom of death on your heads? So
this young couple and all others stopped to see what this crazy
person was singing. Then they all beat him up. Kabir was a true
devotee and a pure man and so he took a lot of beating!
One must not speak the naked truth. What should his
speech be like? It should have the following four qualities: It
should be beneficial to others (hiit), it should be brief and to the
point (miit), it should be pleasant to the listener (prit) and it
should be the truth (satya). No matter how true what you say
is, what good is it if it is not pleasant to the other person? This
is a task for only the Gnani. Only a Gnani has speech with all
four of these qualities. Whatever he says is always for the benefit
of others; his speech is never uttered for his own self gain. The