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has exceeded normal limits and turned into ‘poison’. In this day
and age, it is on account of this worldly science (bhautik
vignan) that we have unlimited external happiness. While on the
other hand, the inner happiness has dried up! There should be
a balance in external and internal happiness. If there are slight
ups and downs, it is acceptable, but they should be within limit.
If your worldly happiness decreases, you can make do with it,
but today the inner happiness has completely disappeared. In
America, it has completely gone. People over there, take up to
twenty sleeping pills to get to sleep! America has attained
limitless external happiness, but at the same time they have
sacrificed their inner happiness. What kind of science would you
call that?!!
People run around on the outside in search for inner
peace, but how can they find it that way? You will only find
peace on the outside, if you have peace within. Therefore, you
must believe that there is happiness within. Only then can you
attain inner peace.
God (Bhagwan) has asked you to keep an eye on the
gauge which measures the inner and the outer happiness. If inner
happiness goes down and your external happiness goes up, then
know that you are doomed. A little fluctuation up and down, is
acceptable, but what will become of you if your inner happiness
goes completely down? People have increased their external
happiness so much. A man will buy apartments that are worth
millions, have copious amounts to eat and drink, crates upon
crates of fruit; wherefore he ends up with high blood pressure
and heart attacks, and his wife with diabetes. Doctors have put
‘muzzles over their mouths’ (placed dietary restrictions). So who
is going to eat all this? The rats, his servants and his cook will
eat and drink and get plump! When you enter his expensive
apartment, you feel as if you have entered a morgue (cemetery).
And even when you converse with him, he talks with sheer ego.
He serves you expensive tea, but in the absence of real inner