00:00Just think, if Ram were there in a bodily shape, in his mortal body and were he to see
00:20you celebrating his festival, what would he say?
00:28What would he say?
00:31He will call you, you come here, come here.
00:37You just did something, taking my name, hello?
00:44All this tamasha is in my name?
00:51He would be angered.
00:53He would say you do whatever you want to do, but why are you doing it in my name?
00:59Your life has no relation to mine.
01:08There is no sameness between you and me.
01:15You do not even love me at all, let alone worship me.
01:21Had you loved me, you couldn't have lived your life the way you do.
01:31Actually, you stand in firm opposition to me, Ram would say.
01:41If I look at the 364 days of your life, you stand really in firm opposition to me.
01:48And now on this 365th day, what a pretense you are making.
02:00I am the one who never cared for any worldly thing.
02:10I just pushed aside the biggest worldly thing that one can have, an entire empire.
02:21It was there for me to take it.
02:27I could have as well told Raja Dashrath, father, not done.
02:39I deserve the crown and the entire country wants me to be the king and Dashrath would
02:54have consented.
02:56He would have said fine, sir.
02:59But the moment my father said, leave the throne and not merely leave the throne, be gone into
03:16the jungles for 14 years, I said fine.
03:19That's the kind of person I was.
03:26Did I care for the comforts of the palace?
03:33Did I care for power and wealth?
03:38Did I care for the so-called worldly material good life?
03:46I didn't.
03:48And look at yourself.
03:50Even in the name of celebrating my festival, all you do is shop, shop, and shop.
04:01In fact, Ram's festival has become the festival of shopping, shoppers, and shopkeepers.
04:13Ram, who never had anything to do with shops, Ram, who was never a buyer or a seller or
04:25a consumer, Shri Ram who stands for that which can neither be bought nor be sold, his festival
04:35has been turned into an orgy of sales and discounts.
04:53How would he feel were he to reappear in a bodily form today?
05:01We shall just see.
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