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Middle-aged mother: Can you please advise my son? He is your devotee.
Paramahamsa: What should I say?
Middle-aged mother: Please tell him to drop smoking.
Paramahamsa: I never directly tell people to drop habits. If I ask him to drop smoking, he will simply drop me!
A skeptic was telling his devotee wife, “If everybody becomes spiritual, what will happen to planet Earth?!”
Paramahamsa overheard this statement and directly answered, “Earth will simply become Heaven!”
A young girl was telling Master, "Earlier, I thought that all swamis have to be fat and old with a big beard. You are breaking all such trends!"
Paramahamsa smiled and said, "Breaking the trend is the trend, ma! Breaking the trend is breaking your conditioning."