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The Guru and the Disciple
will be. But your belief that happiness exists in gold is a wrong
belief. Can there be happiness in it? Bliss lies where there is no
need to get anything. Bliss is where there is no need to acquire
anything from this world.
I eat, drink, and wear clothes that I have bought with my
own money that I have earned from my business and whatever
comes to me in my prarabdha (karma effect). I do not take money
from anyone and I do not wear anything that is given to me by
others. I have paid for this dhoti (a piece of cloth wear around
the waist) that I wear, and I also pay for my own airline tickets to
Mumbai. So why would I need any money? How will people
accept even a word of what I say if I take a dime from anyone? It
would be tantamount to eating his leftovers. I do not need anything.
What could even God give to the one who does not desire
anything?
A man came to give me a dhoti, another man came to give
me something else. If I had the desire, it would be a different
matter, but I do not have any desire at all. I am comfortable wearing
even torn clothes. I am saying that the purer you keep everything,
the more the world will benefit.
One’s purity means…
In this world, the greater your purity, the more of the world
is yours. You own the world! I have not been an owner of this
body for the past twenty-six years and that is why my purity is
complete. So, become pure, pure.
Questioner: Please clarify purity.
Dadashri: Purity means that you do not need anything in
this world; there is no beggary for anything.
Worldly people always want to become superior to others
It is different here; this is not a shop. People still call this a
shop. They ask, ‘Why have you opened a shop like all the others?