Outer and inner development

These are all the problems, because, once you give up looking at your atma, your brain starts working and the brain starts like a machine. It spins, goes on spinning, spinning, spinning, spinning ideas and these spinning goes round and round and you become nothing but like a spindle, completely covered with these strings. So you have nowhere to grow. You just don’t grow at all. Inside there is no growth; it is only outside. When people walk along, you find lots of plastic hanging around this side, lot of tins jingling that side, and lots of steel hanging that side. You are walking very proud but inside there’s not an elephant. There might be just an ant carrying all these! But thank God in this country [India] we are not yet developed, but I can’t say that it will be like that, because we are very, feel inferior that we have not developed outside. The inside development, nobody thought of that when you try to develop outside. You must have inside development, to carry all this junk. Also, you need an elephant. Whether it is a junk or anything, you need an elephant. So the inside elephant, if you make it into an ant and carry all this junk, then that junk becomes more important than this little ant inside, isn’t it? And that is exactly what has happened in the West.