When the British came to India, they brought with them, their language and its parmanus (subatomic particles). Each language (bhasha) always carries with it, its parmanus. These parmanus with reference to the British were punctuality, order, discipline etc. So all these traits started everything afresh. The Indians had become extremely selfish; they were only concerned about their own. If someone else’s home were on fire, they would continue to sleep without fretting. Frauds and deceivers! They had become contemptuous and useless in all aspects. 

The Brahmins (priestly cast) used to ‘milk’ people. They used to say, “We, the Brahmins are the face of God. The Kshatriyas are the chest, and the Vaishyas and Shudras represent the lower parts.” They completely abused their powers. The power that was meant to be used properly and righteously was completely misused. ‘We are the voice of God; therefore you cannot take objection to whatever we say’. They used their power of veto and because of this; they have had to suffer terribly.  Whatever misfortune they are doomed to face will be but at the moment they don’t even have slippers to wear. They have lost all credibility with people and people no longer regard them as being worthy. They have lost their slippers (bare minimum; have become poor) and their reputation.  Now it would be different if they had lost just their slippers but still had some reputation, or vice versa, but alas, they’ve lost their slippers and their reputation. Just look at their current pathetic predicament and it is all because of their depraved conduct.

People suffer and take a beating because of gluttonous greed (lalach). Why should a human being be gluttonous? Gluttony brings such degradation and wretchedness to man that it will cause him to lose his birth right as a human.

The past generation had treated the untouchables (lower class) very cruelly. If an untouchable wanted to walk on the street, he had to tie a clay pot in the front and a broom at the back. The pot was for him to spit in because they were not allowed to spit on the street and the broom was so that his footsteps would be swept away behind him! They have done tremendous injustice to people and have abused them. Someone like me would take off their heads in an instance! It is acceptable for dogs to spit and do other things in the streets but not for these human beings? How mad have these people become? This is the limit! 

If a girl was born, they would kill the baby the instant she was born. Amongst Rajputs and other classes where there is a tradition of paying a dowry to the groom, the female infants were murdered. They were all illiterate, the women as well as the men yet they believed themselves to be everything. They have done tremendous injustice to others!

If a cat happens to stick her mouth in their milk pot, they will make do but why can’t they make do here also, and let the little baby girl live? 
The head (thakor) of the village would exercise such power that his relatives and his descendants were forbidden to come through their town riding a horse. They were made to dismount the horse and walk. Would he lose anything if he were to just let them ride through? What monstrous ego! But no, these people would beat the rider to the point of killing him!

How can you call these people civilized? If you have a piece of pure gold and imitation gold, the imitation gold does not have any of the properties of pure gold, so of what value is it?  The one born on this land of India has infinite inner energies, but that energy has been scattered and wasted away. Only the Avatar (Gnani Purush) can turn that energy around and make it useful again.  How did this energy come to be wasted? ‘This man is working towards an ‘I.A.S. (coveted rank of Indian Administrative Service) degree, so I will do the same.’ This is how the energy is dissipated, in trying to imitate others. Just for a maintenance job, tremendous energy has been lost and that too through creating tremendous kashay. Whatever wealth of inner energies one has is completely depleted when one tries to imitate others. Do not take away from the balance of inner happiness and harmony. But people waste away this balance of inner happiness indiscriminately in trying to imitate others, so how can any happiness remain? What is better? Living a life of imitation or a life of authenticity? Children too have learnt to imitate everything. Indians should not imitate anyone; on the contrary others should imitate them.  But alas, our people started to imitate even the few hippies that came to visit India. Despite this, India is headed towards improvement. 

Girls today have a lot of moha (illusionary attachment).  One only has to look at them to see their moha and the state of their illusion. But these very ladies will give birth to a very worthy generation.
Questioner:  What is the reason for that Dada?
Dadashri:  The contemptuous attitude and the kashay that lead to scorn and contempt for everything and everyone have diminished in them so it will no longer surface.  Once contempt goes, it brings a person down to normality. Our people had made tremendous progress but contempt brought them down; they had become useless as human beings because of contempt. Now the contempt is no longer there and so they have begun to become useful again. 

They abused their intellect, using it for deceit and contempt. They did not have Gnan and they misused their intellect. How did their intellect increase? They drank the ‘Mahavir Brain Tonic, Krishna Brain Tonic.’ They would not kill insects; they practiced ahimsa and that increased the intellect. While preserving the insects, they started to attack (deceive) people through increased intellect (buddhi).  

But now India is headed towards a new dawn.  The entire social culture is under the influence of the time of annihilation. The social culture that has become deviant and gone against nature’s laws (vikrut) is going to meet with its doom. Our race was highly cultured (sanskrut) and we could have still made it, had it deteriorated to being an ordinary culture (prakrut), but it is unacceptable when it goes against nature (vikrut).  But what is the benefit of this destruction? The benefit is that all deviant characteristics and behavior will be washed out and everything will start anew. Everything will be new and people will find the kind of peace that had prevailed during the time of Lord Mahavir. And the very generation, which we call crazy today with their long hair, will be called good. The youngsters that we called ‘stupid-hippies’ today will be the very people who will become wise and those who get haircuts are the ones who belong in the mental hospital!

 The so-called ‘long-haired louts’ are the ones who have defined the separation between those who belong in a mental hospital and those who belong outside it. The generation of today, by simply growing their hair long has brought out in the open ‘those who get their haircut are the ones who belong in the mental hospital and we belong outside it. India is not going to suffer any losses – this is the blessing of the Avatar (Gnani Purush). 

Progress in spirituality after suffering

Many people ask me, “Dada, what is to become of India? All the demonstrations against immorality and corruption, pollution, railroad strikes; what is all this?” I explain to them, “These are all potatoes that have been roasting in the fire pit and they have only been roasting for five minutes. So far only the skin and the surface are cooked. Now, what happens if you remove the potatoes at this stage? They would not be of any use at all. So let them roast completely and then you can enjoy them! Hindustan is headed for much more ‘roasting’. Nevertheless the result is going to be wonderful for a country which has brought forth a Gnani Purush and through whom 2103 have become Gnani's and there are many more such Gnani's to be. Never before have such Gnani's arisen. They will elevate all other religions too.  All the religions which have become ‘upset’, ‘we’ will ‘upset’ them again! What will happen if ‘we’ do this?  They will then be set-up properly!

India – A center of the world in 2005
Why has India become a mental hospital?  It is because the land and people of the Sanskrit language have been taught nothing but vikrut; meaning that which is deformed and broken. It would be acceptable for these people to have something ordinary or common, but they cannot be made vikrut. Because their language has turned vikrut, it has created a mental hospital. Nevertheless all these ‘mental patients’ in the hospital will give birth to children who will be wise; truly wise. So it is fine for these mental ones to live. Their children will have wisdom; the children may grow long hair and they may do strange things but ultimately their wisdom will shine.