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brother Manibhai, ‘you can say whatever you like but I am
trapped in your class. I have been studying for fifteen years and
still have not been able to pass matriculation. I would have
discovered God in these many years. I have unnecessarily wasted
my time in learning the English alphabets. Does one have to
spend fifteen years learning someone else’s language to graduate
from high school? What kind of madness is that?’ Half of a
person’s life is wasted in learning a foreign language.
Thus Discovered God
One has been learning the same thing over and over again
for infinite life cycles and then he or she forgets; a veil of ignorance
covers it all. Ignorance (worldly life) does not have to be studied;
it comes naturally. Spiritual knowledge has to be acquired. I
realized this at the age of thirteen because I had a very thin veil
of ignorance over me even then. My math teacher told me to
find the smallest indivisible number, which was present in all
other given numbers (lowest common denominator) i.e. find the
smallest indivisible number which could divide all the other given
numbers. When I was young, I used to talk about people as
‘numbers’ and therefore this suited me. From this class assignment
I discovered God, because God is indivisible and is present in all.
I Learnt Nothing Except The Soul
When I was young I used to ride a Raleigh bike, which
I had bought for fifty-two rupees. In those days people would
repair their tire punctures themselves. However I was generous
and would tell a mechanic to do it for me. People would ask
me why I had someone else repair my punctures when they
were so easy to repair. I told them I had not come here, to this
world to learn everything. There are so many things in this
world and I have not come here to learn all of them. I have
come here to learn about the Soul and if I spent time learning
about other things then my quest of learning about the Soul will