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in a way they will understand. I used to accuse them of being
useless and not very smart and would lose my temper. Later I
realized that it was the difference of revolutions that was
responsible for my inner frustrations and therefore it is my own
fault for seeing deficiencies in others. So I started to apply a
‘counter pulley’.
An engine of three thousand revolutions per minute will
destroy a pump that runs on fifteen hundred revolutions per
minute and therefore you have to use a counter pulley if you
want to run the pump using the engine. Both will work fine
despite the differences in the revolutions but you have to place
a counter- pulley between the two in order for the pump to
receive the cycle of fifteen hundred revolutions. Do you
understand this concept of a counter-pulley? I used the same
concept when talking to other people with lesser revolutions so
that they would understand what I was saying. Doing this stopped
me from losing my temper.
[3] Awareness Of Ego and False Pride
Choosing Neighbors For Harmony
If you combine some traits of a vanik (business caste)
with those of a vshatriya(warrior caste) or vice versa, it will
create a great mixture. This is what I learned later. Initially, this
is what used happen. We used to live in a colony of mostly
Patels. My elder brother Manibhai Patel, used to interact with
them and liked living amongst them, but I disliked the interaction
with them. I was young and only twenty-two years old then. Let
me give you an example. Whenever I went to Bombay I would
bring back some halva (Indian sweet) with me. My sister-in law
Diwalibhabhi would send some to the neighbors. She had done
this a few times. Once I forgot to buy the sweets. Now
whichever neighbor she met would pester her, ‘Did he not bring
any sweet this time?’ So I started to question how this problem