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facility for an emergency telephone on the highway at the sixtyseventh mile mark , they will complain that they want a phone installed there . If you ask why , they will tell you that it is because there is already a phone on the first and the third furlong , but there is none on the second furlong . Look how much agitation they have . That is madness . There is so much to eat and drink and yet the whole world is sunk in madness . People are in nothing but misery and pain . They are permanently miserable ! There is no happiness , not even for a moment . Until the energy of stillness arises within , how can a person be happy ( sukh )?
Questioner : Is it possible to find stillness between two thoughts ?
Dadashri : Such stillness is useless . It is the stillness of the “ packing ” ( body ; non-Self complex ), which is of no use . That is not considered stillness . Stillness should be unshakable . Stillness should not leave even if there is a looming threat over your head of an atom bomb about to fall . That is true stillness . People ’ s minds are restless ( chanchal ). Whereas my mind moves on steadily . It is like where you have to shake hands with two thousand people . You shake hands with one person at a time and you keep moving along as you shake hands with them . That is how it is for me ; the thoughts of the mind ‘ shake hands ’ and move on . No single thought will remain in one place , not even for a second . And for you , the thoughts get stuck for fifteen minutes to half an hour at a time . Do they do that or not ?
Questioner : Yes , they do .
Dadashri : I too , have a mind . I would be considered ‘ absent minded ’ if I did not . My mind is very solid and steady ( prakhar ). It will not be affected even if there is a threat of an atom bomb in the next hour . There is not the slightest restlessness . It moves on at a steady pace . And your mind is like a fly hovering around a lump of sugar . It hovers around something it sees .