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cannot take any revenge on that fellow. What will you do? You cannot run after him. You are in helpless situation where you are victim but you can’t take revenge but you will never forget that fellow. You will be going on raving against that fellow, in the road, in your office, at home, next day also. Till you get one more insult, this insult will be persisting in your mind. You must be very careful; if you are going nearby a bus, one should watch what will happen because you really do not know who is there inside. It happens, you are in a situation where you cannot take revenge, you may rave, you may go on crying, you may shout. The same position, I told this example which much more humorous, but most of the employees working in government offices or else where, they have got the same problem, every day they get some problem. They cannot take revenge. They simply had to swallow it and come and they sit and rave in the seat, sit and talk to his colleague who may not go and inform the boss again, they have to be extraordinarily careful to whom he is talking. So these are all things that happen but what is most important for us to understand is, it is very difficult to do but it is easy when you yield to the divine. When you know that the things that happen because of divine gifts, God knows what is best. Tough, it is one of the toughest commandments to follow. Not impossible but fairly difficult, I should concede the point that it is fairly difficult. Having gone through stages definitely I can say it is tough and most of the time when you are able to ignore that also, to forgive becomes a real problem. So you remember it, you remember the insult and the vasanas are there the moment it comes. That is why our people from the beginning have been asking us to be away from such environment. Please don’t go into situation like that and then get into troubles. Be away as far as possible and it is only the cleaning process that finally will throw you out of the situation because this is the samskara that you have made, the vasana that you have made. It has to be washed out by you and it takes time.
One of our pet subjects in our country is as to what satvik food we should take, what rajasik or tamasik food we should avoid. Finally it made even Vivekananda complain that this was kitchen culture of ours. He made this statement in a humorous way; he did not mean anything bad about it. What he was trying to tell is that don’t make much fuss about who is serving it or who is making it. As you digest it, it becomes part of your good food, because the satvik food is one which is taken with a feeling that it is a prasad. The concept of prasad is very common for all of us