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CRAVING OF THE SOUL
relish it. The filth is relished. I am sorry if there are any admirers of masala dosa here but definitely it is not something that is
1. conduciveforhealth,
2. it is not conducive for the environment
because you are going to make it foul
3. your mouth smells bad and you cannot talk to
a person nearby
and inspite of all this things you enjoy the filth, right or wrong? Don’t think that Babuji’s statement that we don’t enjoy filth. We enjoy filth. Have you come to the conclusion that we should not enjoy filth? That is the first step of renunciation. We enjoy the pornographic material, we also enjoy the terror or the violence. We seem to have an inherent capacity of being a tiger or a lion and incapable of being so in reality, you would like to be so atleast virtually. Why people enjoy this type of terror pictures or terror stories is, they would like to be one such. Every person who is a great admirer of detective fiction is basically a person who is a criminal in mind and since he would not dare to become one because of the social constraints he becomes virtually one by reading that. This of course takes you to Freud - you better read Freud. I won’t talk about it because that man has talked
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