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HE IS QUITE INDIFFERENT TO IT
Meher Baba
When the mind does not pay attention to the body, the body,
naturally, automatically survives and looks after itself. Now
because of a kind of universal working on the gross plane, a sort of
automatic attraction takes place, which causes a man who is
indifferent to cleanliness to be attracted to place himself in dirty
surroundings. He does not purposely choose an unclean place, but
tends to gravitate towards it, for he is himself quite indifferent
either to cleanliness or to dirt on the physical plane. For those
who are God-mad, God-intoxicated, or God-merged, this dirtiness does
not affect their health, because the mind is not attached to the
body.
For those souls, good or bad, cleanliness or dirt, a palace or a
hut, a spotless avenue or a filthy gutter are all the same, and they
are driven into any of these places according to circumstance. It is
natural for a mast to have a dirty body, and it is natural for him
to be driven to dirty surroundings; but if the devotee of a mast
happens to give him comfort and cleanliness, he takes it because it
is forced on him but he is quite indifferent to it.
THE WAYFARERS, p. 34, William Donkin
1988 © Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust
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