Because you do not keep things sufficiently in your consciousness.
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It is always very good to make use of things instead of uselessly destroying them.
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It was an act of ignorance.
Received in the right spirit the curtains could have lasted two or three years more. Received wrongly they might have gone to pieces within a month. Things also have a consciousness of their own.
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The Divine is in things also and that is why they must be treated with care.
17 May 1955
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Not to take care of material things which one uses is a sign of inconscience and ignorance.
You have no right to use any material object whatsoever if you do not take care of it.
You must take care of it not because you are attached to it, but because it manifests something of the Divine Consciousness.