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