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deliberately. Whenever you have the desire that, ‘I do not want
to steal anymore,’ then you can stop it. You do want to stop
stealing, don’t you? Yet, if there is a push from within and you
have to steal, then ask for forgiveness. That is all! You do not
have to do anything else.
You cannot tell a thief, ‘Stop that business from tomorrow.’
You will not achieve anything by saying that. Nothing will work,
will it? You can never tell him, ‘Stop this or stop that.’ ‘We’
never tell anyone to stop doing something. In the current time
cycle of the fifth ara (era), telling anyone to stop doing something
is not appropriate. Nor is it appropriate to tell anyone, ‘Do this.’
That is because one is not able to let go of anything even if he
wants to. Yes, and on the other hand, they will complain, ‘I want
to but I am not able to do it. I want to fast but I cannot.’
Hey, you! Why do you keep saying this over and over
again? Instead, why don’t you ask the Lord for forgiveness?
‘Dear Lord. I want to fast but I am not able to, and for that I
ask for your forgiveness.’ But instead, he keeps saying he cannot
do it. You should never say, ‘I cannot do it. I cannot do it.’ Is
there some law that says that you have to say this? It is a type
of ego. If you can’t do it, there is no need for you to keep saying
it over and over. Why does one complain like that? He is showing
his ego.
This science seems very new and strange to people. It is
something they have never heard of, never seen before, never
known before! What have they been telling us so far? They have
said, ‘Stop all the bad deeds and do good deeds.’ One does
not have the capacity to stop anything nor create anything and
yet they uselessly keep saying, ‘Do this.’ Then that person will
say, ‘I am not able to do it. I want to speak the truth, but I
cannot.’ Therefore, ‘we’ came up with a new science. ‘Dear
brother, you do not have a problem speaking a lie, do you? You
can handle that, can you not? So when you speak a lie, do this;