WHO AM I ?
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Dadashri : Sometimes people will make a variety of
other excuses, always avoiding ownership and acceptance of
their own faults and mistakes. One will never accept his own
faults. In this context, a foreigner once remarked to me, “Why
don’t you Indians accept the blame for your own mistakes
gracefully?” I said, “That itself is the ‘Indian puzzle’; the biggest
puzzle of all Indian puzzles. You will not be able to solve it.
Indians will never accept their own mistakes, whereas you
foreigners are very gracious about accepting your own faults.”
CONTRADICTION IN ‘DOERSHIP’
Sanyog (an event, association of circumstances) and viyog
(dissipation of circumstances) occur on their own. But a man
with ego takes the credit. When a man earns money, he says,
“I earned it,” but when he suffers losses, he loses all confidence
and despairs, “What could I do?”
Questioner : Yes, sometimes I say the same thing.
Dadashri : If you are the ‘doer,’ then you will never say,
“What could I do?” Let us take a simple example of making
kadhee (a Gujarati dish made from yogurt). If the kadhee turns
out well and tastes good, the person who prepared it will take
credit and say, “I made it.” However if it was to boil over whilst
cooking, the person would say, “What could I do? The children
were bothering me, the phone was ringing constantly, the flame
was too high etc….” Why all these excuses? I came to
understand that everybody talks like this. When a patient
recovers from his illness, his doctor will claim, “I saved his life,”
but if the patient dies then he will say, “What could I do?” Why
make such unfounded, unsupported statements?
DID YOU WAKE UP OR WERE YOU AWAKENED ?
If you wake up early in the morning, you will say, “I
woke up.” What makes you think that you are able to wake up