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Aptavani-9
Questioner: But what if the people consider us fools in
all respect?
Dadashri: Yes, but that is precisely what you need to
become. Your tremendous merit karmas have awakened! You
should not interact with those people with pleasure and ease.
With them, you should pretend, only as a show, that you want
to enter the ‘horserace’ and compete against them. But when
you go there, go ahead and lose the race, so that they feel good
about winning. I have done that so many times and I tell them,
‘I am not very smart. I am clumsy.’ This is the best solution.
Otherwise all these are nothing but race horses and racecourses.
In these racecourses, whom will you run against? When we do
not have even the energy to walk, whom will we run against?
However, people will then tell you, ‘then run with the older
people’ so I tell them ‘but I can’t even run with people older
than myself and really I don’t know anything else.’ What use do
we have for this babuchak’s (incompetent’s) intellect; an
intellect that one can even rent?
You can hire experts from anywhere. If you ask someone
what his expertise is, he will say ‘income tax’. He will be for
hire, the doctors are for hire, the lawyers are for hire, and
everything and everyone is for hire!
Every man is an expert in his own field and occupation
and incompetent in others. I am better off. Instead of calling
myself an expert in something, I say ‘I am babuchak
(incompetent) in everything.’ A person can be the best solicitor
in India but in certain matters he will say, ‘For this you will have
to go to someone else.’ Even a prominent doctor will come to
us when he wants his home built, however the poor man is
modest. It is because he has no clue about construction. That is
how the world is. They are incompetent in other matters. No
one person can be good in everything and therefore he has to
be considered incompetent in other things, does he not? So why
not be incompetent in everything? Do you not understand?