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do not realize that everyone else is crying also. Everyone
washes their faces before they leave home. You would find out
just how much happiness there is in this world, if people were
to leave their homes without washing their faces. If I come
outside crying, you do the same and he does the same, then you
will realize that this world is nothing but empty. A man buries
his father at a very young age, he cries all the way to the
crematorium, comes home and takes a shower and that is the
end of that! They teach people to take a bath and get clean;
that is the world for you. Everyone washes his or her face
before leaving the home; they all put up a show, they are all
deceivers! Instead, it would be better if they all tell the truth
openly.
Of all our mahatmas (self-realized people), there will be
a rare man who will tell me, “Dada, my wife beat me up today!”
From where did this man acquire such candidness? Such
candidness comes because of this Gnan. You can tell ‘Dada’
everything. Such candidness is the sign of approaching liberation.
How else can there be such candidness? One needs to be
straightforward if he is to acquire liberation. The husband may
get away with telling a lie outside, but at home, he takes a
beating from his wife. Even then, outside he will say, “Oh! That
was our daughter my wife was beating!” You fool! I saw with
my own eyes that it was you, she was beating! What is the use
of lying? It is all meaningless. Instead, why not tell the truth?
The soul never takes a beating. You are the Soul and so even
when she gives a beating it is the body that she beats. No one
can insult our soul, because they can only do so if they can see
the soul. How can they insult that which they cannot see? On
the other hand, even buffaloes can hurt the body, can they not?
When this happens, do men not openly declare that the buffalo
hit them? And is the wife not higher than the buffalo? So what?
What reputation are you trying to protect? Did you even have