392 Aptavani-9
People like it when I tell them,‘ There is no substance or competence left in me.’ Otherwise these‘ people with substance and competence’ will come to make deals with me. Is this even a place – with the Gnani – to make deals?‘ We’ are higher than everyone! Deals are to be made with people of your own caliber. I am above everything and at the same time without any substance and competence. That is why‘ we’ say,‘ What are you looking for in someone who has no substance?’ Even to the robbers and thugs‘ we’ say,‘ what is there to take from me; from the one without any substance and competence? In fact I don’ t even know how to give and so take whatever you want from my pocket, yourself!’
When I was young, people used to scold me and tell me‘ you do not have any substance or competence.’ Now rather than have anyone else tell‘ us’,‘ we’ might as well tell‘ ourselves’ that‘ we’ have no substance. All the problems will go away if you certify yourself this way before anyone else does. People go around telling you,‘ you have no substance in you,’ and you go around trying to show that you are something, now how can it work? Instead, just certify your own self as not having any substance or competence and the problem will be solved.
The racecourse of life
When our construction contract business was recognized as being number one in the area, a kind of power entered the mind that my mind was working like a genius. However that too was not akkal( wisdom, right intellect); on the contrary it was foolishness. It was nothing but a museum of inviting troubles( upadhi). Right intellect, wisdom is that which reduces external problems( upadhi); it is where potential problems coming your way gets diverted and end up going to someone else. They go to someone else.
People’ s methods are all wrong. The practices they use or resort to for progress in life are also wrong. We ran around