00:00Somebody was eating something and this wandering ascetic passes by and the ascetic says,
00:08can you share something? He takes a little piece of bread and throws it on the ground
00:14and what does he do? He licks at the dirt, consumes all the dirt and throws the bread
00:19away. And then as is the way of these old stories, the rich man then runs after him,
00:26falls at his feet and says, Baba, please. And then the Baba shows up as Bhagawan himself
00:35and says, I had come to teach you a lesson because wealth had made you too proud of yourself
00:43and you had forgotten me. Forget all the hagiographic and the superstitious part of it.
00:51But still a lesson is there. What is the lesson? The lesson is not that dirt is nutritious,
01:00but that the sage stops seeing differences. That is all the lesson that there is.
01:07There is not a lesson in humility. It is not about supernatural powers either.
01:12The lesson is simple and the lesson pertains to the core of self-inquiry. Psychologically,
01:19there might be no difference, but physically there is difference and the body knows the
01:24difference. So let the body decide. You don't have to consume dirt.
