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with you. ‘You’ are permanent. Temporary things will not suit
you.
Ultimately when even your own body is not going to be
yours, then how can the wife be yours? Is the wife going to be
yours? What if you keep having mamata towards the wife and
one day she divorces you? There is no such problem with this
body, is there?
Questioner: But what is there in this body that merits
having unnecessary mamata?
Dadashri: Then what on the outside is worth having
more mamata for? So there is nothing that is yours. Whatever
is yours, will come with you; that is the principle. And anything
that is not yours is not going to. So is it not meaningless to have
mamata for anything that is not yours?
Questioner: But how much mamata can there be
towards the body?
Dadashri: There are many things in the body. There are
thirty-two teeth and a tongue that work the whole day but does
not get crushed between the teeth. So it is more than enough if
you increase this much mamata towards the body.
Questioner: What is the benefit in keeping this much
mamata?
Dadashri: When you keep this muc