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vaniyo (baniya cast businessman) would do business during the
day and at night he would gamble away his money. When he
came home, his wife would give him a good thrashing! One day
the villagers came to get me, ‘Come on Sir, this is something
worth seeing!’ I asked them what was worth seeing. They told
me, ‘Why don’t you at least come?’ So we went there. The
door was locked from the inside. The vaniya’s wife must have
been beating him with a stick but you could hear him saying out
loud, pretending as if he is beating her, ‘Here! Take one… here
take another!’ I said to my self, ‘This is interesting! We learned
a new scripture today!’ The villagers told me that his wife beats
him every day and the baniya says, ‘Take that!’ Is this baniya
not smart? This is what the world is like. You will find all kinds
of things. The baniya preserved his reputation, did he not? We
do not have to preserve ‘our, the Self’s’ reputation in this way;
‘our’ reputation is already secure. All You have to do is ‘Settle
with equanimity.’
One lawyer tells his client, ‘Will you get lost from here or
not? Or else I will make the dog bite you!’ This is called a
lawyer! Even the clients are like that!
This world is without order, and there is no telling where
one will be or what will be his state. ‘We’ call it (the world)
hollow, without substance (polumpol). The guilty one escapes
and the innocent gets caught. If this is not called polumpol, then
what is it? From the perspective of worldly interaction, this world
is hollow and haphazard and from the perspective of natural
order, it is absolutely just and in compliance with the natural
laws. People do not know how to tally this calculation. Is
whatever you see the account? No, no! Nature says that whatever
you see before you is a settlement of a karmic account from
the past life, and the settlement of the current account will
come in the next life. Therefore, you have to suffer the
consequences of your past mistakes. The fault is of the sufferer.
Therefore, whoever is suffering now is verily at fault due to his