When a sewer is giving off a stench, do we complain? In the same token all these people who are disagreeable and negative are like the sewers. Whatever smells unpleasant, we call a sewerand whatever smells pleasant we call a flower. Adjust to both. They are both saying, “ Become Vitraag (beyond attachment and abhorrence or detached) with us.”
You suffer because of your opinions of good and bad. You must keep them in check. When we say something is good, other things by comparison become bad and begin to bother us. If we rise above opinions, good or bad, there is no suffering. ‘Adjust Everywhere’ is my discovery. Whatever people say, whether it is true or not, we should adjust. If someone tells me I have no sense, I would adjust immediately by saying, “You are right. I was always a little slow. You just realized it today, whereas I have known about it from my childhood”. If you respond like this, you will avoid conflict. They will never bother you again. If you do not adjust, when will you reach ‘your home’ (Moksha, liberation from the cycle of birth and death)?
