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could do such a thing because the news I gave them made them
feel like throwing up. I assured them there was no need for
them to do so. I told them he was only a guest and that when
guests come we welcome them and when they leave, we bid
them farewell. They asked ‘How could he be your guest, he
was your son?’ I told them they can think of him as my son but
to me he was a guest. The same thing happened when our
daughter was born. Everyone forgot about the incident with my
son. They ate the pendas when she was born and even when
she passed away. People tend to forget. How long does it take
to forget? Does it take long? People forget easily because they
live in illusion. Illusion of the world makes one forget.
Super Human Being
Questioner : How old were you when you started giving
satsang? And when you distributed sweets in the park, is that
considered a satsang?
Dadashri : No that is not considered satsang. That is my
inner understanding and vision from the spiritual perspective.
Satsang commenced in the year of 1942, so about forty-one
years ago. I was born in 1908 and satsang started in 1942.
That makes me thirty-four years old but actually I was about
thirty-two, when satsang started. Previously however, people
did receive some sentences of spiritual significance.
When I was twenty-two, I told my friends that they need
not do any of my work for me. I had a big ego. I also told them
that they could call on me at any time for their work. My friends
told me there was no need for me to say such things and turn
the issue into an affair of mine-yours.
It so happened that once I had gone to someone’s place
at midnight after watching a movie. On seeing me, that person
thought, ‘How come this man, who is never late, has come here