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to release my goods, when you go there?’ Now that person may
have goods worth twenty-five thousand rupees. What if I were
to charge a commission of three hundred rupees or so in that?
Would he even think that I would charge a commission? Is that
why he asked me for help? No. He asked me because he
trusts me, so would I violate his trust in this way? This did not
suit me.
Questioner: But this is all natural, is it not?
Dadashri: What is natural? Can you take money this
way? Not to do so is nobility. If one does not try to preserve
this ego of nobility, in the absence of Gnan, then he will become
completely bankrupt. We are noble people! Noble people
cannot do anything wrong. Nobility is to not do anything that is
socially unacceptable. A noble person cannot do anything that
people will criticize him for. It is false nobility if a person claims
to be noble when he carries out deeds that are socially
unacceptable. No one will accept that. There is contradiction in
a situation when one claims to be noble but others criticize him;
this equation does not work.
If you do something and then say, ‘I did it,’ then the
nobility (khandaani) goes away. A noble man will give both
the times, when he comes and also when he goes. He is like
the sawdust that sheds whether you pull on the saw or you
push on it; he gives when he gives but he also gives when he
takes.
Craving for respect
Now if a person was given a lot of respect (maan) when
he was growing up, he will not be hungry for it when he grows
up. If his hunger for respect (maan) has been satisfied in his
childhood, then he has no hunger for it later on. A human life can
be destroyed if one has been scarred with contempt in his
childhood. If a person is subject to repeated insults in his
childhood to the point where his need for respect was rejected,