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understanding of the beneficiary, then he is making a judgment
on the beneficiary. So do not look for understanding from those
you seek to help. A mango tree gives its fruits to everyone but
how many mangos does it eat itself?
Questioner : None at all.
Dadashri : Then who are the mangoes for?
Questioner : They are for others.
Dadashri : Yes, does the tree look at whether the
person eating its fruit is a good man or a crook? The mango is
there for whoever takes it. True benevolent living is the life lived
by the trees.
Questioner : But people accuse the very people who
help them. Do we still have to continue helping them?
Dadashri : Yes, that is the very thing worth noting.
Benevolence towards ingratitude is true benevolence, but where
can people acquire such an understanding? If a person
understands this much, he is truly blessed. Benevolence is a
very high state and it is the ultimate purpose of the human life,
and in India, the second aim of a human life is to achieve
liberation from the cycle of birth and death.
Questioner : Does ego coexist with benevolence?
Dadashri : The ego of the person who practices
benevolence is always within the norm; that ego is always
appropriate. The ego of a person who charges a fee for helping
others will become very inflated; his ego is so inflated that he
really cannot afford to have it inflated anymore.
The law of nature is such that it will take care of those
who give their fruits to others. This is the hidden science. This
benevolence is relative religion, and then comes real religion,