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CRAVING OF THE SOUL
humility. They would not like to be normal. “Ativinayam Dhoortha Lakshanam”. So there is nothing new here, Babuji is only telling that. It’s a negative attachment and it is very difficult to get rid of it because that is something socially very acceptable. Everyone thinks that he is very very humble and that increases his ego. He is a very humble man sir. There is another category of people who live very austere life. ‘He is a person practicing very austere life, Sir’. It is only his miserliness that makes him austere. He is not prepared to give one paise to somebody else. He is surely austere but does not want to give one paise to others. He will not sacrifice anything and such people go and say, “He is very austere, very good man sir”. So you can think and meditate further on this.
“When we think of `I', it becomes stronger by our own thought force, brought about by concentration. Try to forget the `I', it will help a good deal”. One of the most significant spiritual truths comes now in the next sentence. “Once Divinity dawns, the negative attitude to life goes far away”. In the first paragraph we have referred to the concept of Vairagya, which we generally think is a negative concept of life,everybody thinks so.
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