New ownership means new slavery.
Doesn't it sound like a mantra?
A new purchase, means a new shackle.
How beautiful this mantra is!
You would wonder where it is written.
Is it in a Veda or Upanishad?
Is it in a Jain sutra 
or Buddhist sutra?
Such high philosophy was given 
by a scientist, a researcher.
The creator of the Theory of Relativity; 
a Nobel prize-winner.
A common man, who never believed 
he was religious, but he was!
These words were not 
his preaching to others.
He used to say this, whenever 
someone gave him a gift, a present.
Not whilst holding a mike in his hand.
Whenever he was presented 
with a gift,
"Why are you entrapping me?
Why are you putting me in chains?"
Such a sentence would take away 
someone's joy of gifting him.
He lived the life of an ascetic.
He had no carpet at home. 
'What is the need?'
If you talk about the 'need', 
then there is no necessity for a carpet.
The floor could be of Kota stone 
or something similar?
What do you call that black stone? 
Kadappa.
Wouldn't that stone do for your home?
Then why have marble flooring?
Will marble do?
Then why use carpet?
For us it is always, 
'Why not something better?'
This is how one full of 
attachment would think,
However, Einstein's attitude was,
'Why this? Can I do without it?'
And if he could do without it, 
he would not take it.
He would only take those things 
without which he could not get by.
Check yourself - you will be able to remove 
so many things from your body right now,
Because you can do without them.
No carpet, no furniture.
If we have an empty wall,
We would like to hang a 
picture or painting on it.
No picture.
Wouldn't a man of Einstein's stature 
be receiving many gifts?
Wouldn't he have received some pictures?
Even if he was given gifts,
firstly, he would not accept them.
And if he had to accept, 
then he would not hang them.
Just because he had received it, 
did not mean he must use it.
He may have committed
the fault of acquisition,
But he would not commit 
the fault of indulgence.
Who would have taught him this?
Due to unavoidable circumstances,
if something was acquired,
Sometimes you accept something 
to make someone happy.
But that does not mean it must be used.
If you visited his house, 
you would never feel,
He was a Nobel prize-winner.
He would wear a half sleeve shirt,
Because a full sleeve one 
would involve buttons,
And, if the buttons broke, 
they would need replacing.
Why bother with all that?
What a karma yogi he must have been.
The expense of a button, 
and the time to stitch it.
He did not want to 
waste either of these.
How goal focused he must have been!
Goal Focused.
He was invited to be a professor 
at Princeton University.
He was requested to write his 
remuneration on a blank cheque.
The dean or chancellor was dumbfounded 
on seeing the amount.
Because that was the salary 
they gave their peon!
What if we were asked to quote a salary?
We would try to quote 
as much as possible.
But he had inner wealth,
He was full of inner prosperity 
- not poverty.
He had only one innocent hobby,
'If ever my moods fluctuate,'
'I must be able to regain 
calmness on my own.'
If not directly through thoughts,
Then he went outward only 
so far as playing the violin.
Such was Einstein's greatness!
A co-professor once very quickly told 
him about a research project,
So as not to waste Einstein's time.
I hope you know that Einstein had dyslexia. 
He was a slow learner.
After hearing him out, Einstein said,
"I am not so clever. 
I will not understand so quickly."
"Please repeat what you said, slowly."
That's what I call straightforwardness.
He could have inferred what was spoken,
and if it turned out to be inaccurate,
Just say, "Sorry - misunderstanding."
Great people won't say, "Misunderstanding."
They will reconfirm, ask a second time,
Without hesitation or feeling ashamed,
They will say that they 
have still not understood.
But saying sorry would be 
considered a sinful act.
This is a sign of a 
spiritually advanced seeker.
Who would have taught 
all this to Einstein?
His inner purity.
So, you try to understand,
You won't become clever 
by injecting information from outside.
You become clever by 
your inner purity.
