The bog of gutters near Bandra Station [in Mumbai]
smells foul, but does that mean you should scold it? In the
same way, these people ‘smell foul’, so can you tell them
anything? Everything that smells foul is considered a creek,
and that which gives off fragrance is considered a garden.
Everything that smells foul says, ‘Remain vitaraag with us!’
It is because of labeling things as good or bad that
they [the opinions] harass you. You have to make both of
them equal. When you refer to this as ‘good’, the other
[automatically] becomes bad, and that is why it harasses
you. But if you mix both together, then the effect no longer remains. ‘Adjust everywhere,’ is something ‘we’ have
discovered. Adjust with the one who is speaking truthfully,
as well as with the one who is telling a lie. If someone
were to say to ‘us’, “You have no sense,” then I would
immediately adjust and tell him, “I never had any to begin
with! Why have you come looking for it now? You just
happened to discover this today, whereas I have known
this since childhood.” If you say this, then the problem
ends, doesn’t it? Thereafter he will certainly not come to
you looking for sense. If you do not do this, then when
will you reach ‘your home’ [liberation]?
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