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Aptavani-9
The extent of mamata (my-ness)
The world keeps nurturing and watering the plant of
mamata. One keeps nurturing it by projecting, ‘This is
mine’…‘this is mine.’ If you ask them what is not theirs, they will
tell you ‘this is not ours. This is my brother’s’ Then a few years
later they tell you, ‘My brother has taken away some of our
things’, and then they will go to court. Then they die and their
children will fight complaining about the same thing. Now will
you not call such a person ‘a sack of misguided intellect’? If he
tries to sell this ‘sack of intellect’, no one will pay even a dime
for it, will they?
Their mamata; their ‘my-ness’ goes even as far as, ‘This
country of India, is ours.’ Then what do they claim about the
state of Gujarat? They will say, ‘Gujarat is ours.’ And in Gujarat
some will say, ‘Our district of Charotar is very good.’ One
becomes the owner of entire Charotar! Then in Charotar, a
person from the town of Anand will say, ‘We the people of
Anand are like this’ and a person from the town of Bhadran will
say, ‘Our Bhadran people are like this.’ He becomes the owner
of the whole village. Then people from two different streets from
the same village will argue, ‘Our street is better than yours.’
Then two families from the same street argue about their
families. This goes down all the way to two brothers arguing
about who is better. So it is the same everywhere and people
try to protect their little ownerships. They try to protect (own)
the whole country, and the whole state of Gujarat. What is the
point of spreading ownership all throughout India? One has not
done anything for his own salvation and yet he is busy claiming
and spreading ownership all around.
Now who creates this drashtibhed (a vision of division)?
The intellect (buddhi) creates it. It will be so divisive that it will
make one say, ‘I have nothing to do with those other people.’
‘This is our home, this is ours and that is ours. We do not have
anything to do with anyone else,’ this is how divisive it is; these