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Moulding Life
When one lives a simple life, one has few needs. One who has
few needs, needs not much money - that is easily acquired, morally acquired,
acquired with a certain dignity which goes with rightful earning, a
fearlessness which goes with rightful earning - one need not be afraid
of the police, the income tax man, or even of one's own conscience.
Then we find this miraculous feature that now there is enough or more
time than we need to meditate, to do our cleaning, to practice constant
remembrance, which we say now we have no time for, because Bachubhai
goes to a shop at seven, comes back at eleven at night. Somabhai goes
at six-thirty and comes back at eleven-thirty. Amritbhai is never at
home. He is traveling all over the world to get business. How can we
meditate? And then they start asking very funny questions. They come
and ask me, "Am I not responsible for my family?" A man who
doesn't see his wife once in a year, who does not know in which class
his children are studying, often doesn't even know their names - he
claims to be in a position of responsibility to his family, and therefore
he has no time to meditate.
Our life must be open, our activities must be there for all to see,
our behaviour must be above reproach, what we have we share with all,
knowing that when we share, everyone shares with us. And therefore the
benefits that we enjoy from life are multiplied a million-fold. Every
time you give, you receive much more than you give. We are sensible,
educated adults. Because an adult must be an adult by behaviour, not
by the number of years that he or she has existed on this planet. Adultness
must be judged by your behaviour, by your responses, by the maturity
that you can exhibit.
It is a shameful thing that people mould their lives in such a way
that their environment is completely polluted and spoilt. Really speaking
our minimum duty is to leave the world at least as we found it when
we came into it, not spoil it and destroy it. We should really try to
leave the world a better place than we found it. Right living becomes
very important. We must tune our lives in such a way that everything
that comes in contact with us is improved. Everything we touch must
get divinised.
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