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whole world out there, and here I am all alone with this vision
(of laghutam). There is no one to give my vision the vote. I am
the only one with this vote, against the racecourse and that is
why I am not raising my voice. I would remain quiet because I
am the only one voting (on the side of laghutam). Otherwise
who would caution you this way? Why would I sit here to
caution you? So, what a world one is trapped in?
Do you like to listen to all this talk? You are not bored are
you? Do not try to analyze this. Just accept it as it is, otherwise
the liability will fall upon you. This is a pure thing; this knowledge
is pure, why do you have to analyze it with your intellect? That
is why I say it very clearly; ‘We’ do not understand anything in
worldly matters’. Only then will everyone leave ‘us’ alone! Only
then can I be free of all worldly possessions!
The misuse of intellect in daily life
You can find all kinds of people who abuse their intellect.
Such people will say ‘I will win your case for you. Just pay me
three hundred rupees.’ Do people not say that? He eats and
drinks at home, takes abuse from his wife and then he does
work for us! Nowadays, the standard of living has gone up, has
it not? So they charge more now, do they not?
Also, people of India do things according to their own
understanding, they are over-wise, they misuse the intellect,
(they are vikalpi people). They don’t learn by asking, ‘what will
happen if we press this button on this machine?’ They do not
learn by asking the technicians of the machines. Everything goes
on haphazardly. People in India do not even know how to use
a razor blade; they don’t even know how sharp a razor should
be; they sharpen it once and it is done. And if a person is a
miser he will keep using a sharpening stone and on the contrary
lose whatever sharpness the blade already had. What are
people of foreign countries like? They are not vikalpi and over-
wise, are they? The shaving razors always come with instructions.