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nobility! It would blot my character! Should I call such a am insis ng you to experience it a bit. How heart-throbbing is
wandering person at home to sing before me? No. Leave all the music! Is there any loss in listening to it a bit?”
this. It's very improper.' A er thinking in mind, she said to the In believing an unsuitable and shameful ac vity to be
maids, "I won't listen to all this.” good and proper, on ge ng a bit persuasion and cer fica on
Keeping one's nobility and character safe and sound, for from the ignorant, it soon invites danger and devasta on to
once, she avoided extrovert outlook to spread further. us.The devil mind makes us believe the improper to be proper.
Q. If we would leave and avoid everything, we would be The noble mind would always consider the evil as evil only. One
le from seeing new things should be very far from such bad things. One should not even
A. If such is your belief, then there are endless things in smell it. Not even go near its shadow. 'It won't mind, less won't
the world which are le to be seen. And which would be le to make any harm.' Many mes such weak thoughts from the evil
be seen. So now what do you want to do? Do you want to cry side oppose and fight with the noble feelings. In the war of
and report for the unseen things or go out for sightseeing? Oh! noble v/s evil, that side wins, towards which the soul is
One should understand, even if, some of those new and inclined. The mistress was then suppor ng the evil side! She
wondrous, things come in front of us, we can't see because of said to the maid,
our nobility. Some other wondrous things are so obscene that “Is that so? Then decide and arrange the place and me,
we can't even speak or ask about it. So why should one lament where we can go and hidingly listen to him.”
about them? Of course, one shouldn't. So, one should According to the me fixed by the maids, the mistress
persuade the mind. 'Even if I wish, I won't be able to see all the got out in the night. She walked out of the town with the maids.
wondrous things, there would be a lot of stuff remaining But, when they reached the singer's place, they found the
unseen. singer to be sleeping. The programme was over and the singer
Similarly, the thing in front is an addi on to the list of was sleeping outside the temple's bench. Maids asked the
unseen. Forget and leave it'. At the first instance, the mistress mistress, "Do we wake him up?” But, the mistress accidentally
pressed her tempta on. But the maids were low bred and declined it. Why? Doesn't she want to listen to the music? She
cheap. They won't finish it so fast. The maid said, wants to. But there are various colours of extrovert outlook.
“Mam, don't believe this music to be an ordinary thing. One who gets coloured by the extrovert outlook of one kind,
This is the music of heaven, really of heaven! Leave everything then gets a racted to another too. Because there are endless
else. But not this thing. A erwards, when you would hear things in the world while the mind waves are s ll boundless!
everyone praising him all around, then you would feel 'I was le Emo ons are fluctua ng! Distracted by another extrovert
from listening to him! I didn't listen to even a bit!' I don't have outlook, the mistress refused to listen to this singer! Why?
any authority over you. I am just expressing my feelings. In the The mistress said to the maid, "No. No need of waking
real sense, I'm an u er fool before you. I really enjoyed it, so I him up. I very well saw your singer. How poor and ugly he looks!
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