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does not listen and he eats whatever he wants, and so I end up
running to the doctor on his account.
Dadashri: What am I saying is that the doctor, too, has
high blood pressure, does he not?
You do not know on what basis one eats. You are to tell
him once that the doctor has told him not to eat chili peppers.
If you impress him, then it is all right and if he is not impressed,
that is all right too. You do not impress him and neither does the
doctor.
Questioner: If I continue eating chili peppers and ask the
other person to stop eating them; that is no way to impress him,
is it?
Dadashri: I do not make anyone do that. I only ask you
to renounce to the extent of my own experiential renunciation,
and that too, if you wish it, otherwise I would say, ‘Go ahead
and get married if you want to.’
If you irritate him by nagging him, ‘Don’t eat the pickle,
don’t eat pepper,’ then he will get irritated and wish you had not
come in.
Do you ever wonder what will happen if you are not
around? So then just think as if you do not exist, rather then
doing egoism for no reason.
You should just present the doctor’s instruction of, ‘Don’t
eat peppers.’ Then, to accept it or not to accept, is up to him.
If I had told someone, ‘Do it this way,’ he would end up
doing something completely different. So then I would say, ‘What
will you gain by doing it that way?’ Then he will say that he will
not do it from now on.
Instead, if I tell him, ‘Why are you doing such thing? You
are like this and you are like that,’ then he will conceal things