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expect me to listen to a radio? If I listen to a radio, then what
about my time? It was tiring enough just listening to the radios of
all human beings, so how could I own one? That is all madness.
Did Not Even Acquire A Phone
Someone once asked me, ‘Shall we get a phone?’ I said,
‘No, why would I acquire an unnecessary burden?’ It will not
allow me to sleep peacefully so why acquire such a nuisance!
If someone needs me, he will come here. I do not have such
needs. People install phones for pleasure or to show off. It is
fine for those prestigious people who want to impress others. I
am not like them. I am just an ordinary person who prefers to
sleep peacefully, sleep in my own independence. So why would
I keep the nuisance of the telephone? It would ring and cause
a nuisance. I would just throw it out. Occasionally a mosquito
may disturb my sleep but that is an unavoidable nuisance, but
this is avoidable. How can you afford to have such a nuisance?
Once I owned a car. The driver would come and tell me
that the car had broken down and that it needed certain parts.
I had no clue about parts. That is when I realized that it was
a trap. I had already fallen into one trap of having a wife and
children. A person could start one ‘business’ if he wanted to
but he could not start several ‘businesses’, which trapped. How
many more traps can you endure overhead?
This is all commonsense. The driver would siphon the
petrol and then tell the owner that the car needed more petrol.
The owner would not know any better. Why go through such
problems? Therefore, I did not keep the car. But depending on
the circumstances I would ask for one.
Did Not See Any Happiness In Worldly Things
Questioner : Dada, why is that we want these worldly
things, whereas you do not?