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their names here – the relative self); ‘Insult him as much as you
want. What relation do I have with him? He is ‘our’ neighbor.’
If he is hurt and cries, I will pacify him.
But the poor man will not get any sleep because he
believes ‘I am insulted’. Otherwise, there is tremendous energy
(shakti) in each and every Indian. All they need is someone to
awaken it for them. Still, look at how helpless people have
become? Wherever you look, you see them standing in queues.
That is how helpless they have become. Otherwise, what were
these people like? If they felt a slightest shun in an invitation, they
would refuse to go. But look at them now! They drag
themselves everywhere and stand in lines. If you ask them,
‘Why are you waiting in a line?’ They will say, ‘We have to
take a bus.’ Why do you have to go by bus everyday? Do you
not know how to find an alternative and an independent way of
going? They will ask, ‘What other way can I find when I have
to work?’ So the whole life is fractured. Otherwise, in the past
they would not go to anyone’s home for dinner if they felt the
slightest of insult. They paid too much importance to insults.
So ‘our’ intention is to give people such knowledge that
wherever they go, whichever countries they visit, no one can
depress them; no one will be able to depress them. Any one
who causes depression to others will become depressed
himself. This is for sure. No matter how important the other
person is or even the whole world for that matter, how can
anyone shake us?
Nevertheless, if the fear of being insulted goes away in a
person, who is not Self-realized, then that person will become
shameless (naffat). People have some sense of shame due to
this fear of being insulted. Would they have any bounds
otherwise? And for the one who is Self-realized, when the fear
of being insulted goes away, he becomes liberated. Here, in our
satsang, you will be liberated if your fear of insult goes away.