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Aptavani-5
Dadashri and His Disciple
Dadashri: Will you do this kind of crooked business
again? Do you want to become an animal?
Questioner: No.
Dadashri: You can fall down with these two legs –
instead if you had four legs, at least you will not fall, will you?
And as a bonus prize you will get a tail so that you can go
around jumping! So do you want something like that or do you
want to be born as a human being again?
Questioner: I want to be a human being again.
Dadashri: Then you will have to have humane traits. If
you treat others the way you would want to be treated, then you
will become a human being. Would you like it if someone were
to call you worthless?
Questioner: No, I would not.
Dadashri: Therefore, you should think about how the
other person would feel if you were to call him worthless. So
greet him warmly and tell him how good a person he is. He will
be happy.
You feel hurt when someone lies to you, so then how hurt
would he be if you were to lie to him?
You cannot take anything that is not rightfully yours. Do
people not take things that do not belong to them?
Questioner: Many do.
Dadashri: They run away with someone else’s wife too.
One should keep a wife of his own. But here, men go around
looking for someone else’s wife. No one would object or say
anything, including your family, if you were to have a wife of
your own. So which hole would be better to fall in?