Aptavani 09

SR No.: 007513
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gnani Purush Dadashri
Publisher: Gnani Purush Dadashri
Publication Year: 2007
Total Pages: 515
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Akram Vigyan
File Size: 8 MB

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Questioner: So does the 'I-ness' move away?
Dadashri: "I-ness' will continue to decrease. “I-ness' means a stock of baggage. A stock of ego; it continues to discharge. And what is this ego like? There is already a stock within and a new stock is also flowing in; both get together inside. With us mahatmas, the charging ego is gone and the stock within still remains. The pending stock of the ego within other people (non-Self realized people) is also discharging, but there is also a new charging, new filling, taking place simultaneously. For us it is discharging and nothing charges anew. Therefore, the charging ego goes away but the discharge ego is still there. This discharge ego is the 'I-ness'.
Relationship between karma, 'I-ness' and awareness
So after Gnan, the 'I-ness' part is considered a
Questioner: discharge?
Dadashri: That is a discharge; it is the karmic stock filled in the last life bharelo maal . As that stock goes away, discharges, so will the 'I-ness'.
on the basis of this
Questioner: So does the 'I-ness' remain baggage?
Dadashri: Yes.
Questioner: So will the 'I-ness' go down as the baggage empties?
Dadashri: Yes, the 'I-ness' will go down as the baggage empties out. Otherwise, it will not go down by itself. The 'I-ness will end as the reservoir of pending karmas, karmas that remain to be discharged empties.
Whatever the amount of 'I-ness' leaves, that much is gone. If only a small amount leaves, it means more of it still remains and if a lot of it leaves then there is relatively little of it left. The greater the awareness jagruti, the more the I-ness potapanu will be removed. The degree of dissolution of I-ness potapanu is in proportion to the level of prevailing awareness jagruti. If awareness is greater, then greater and faster the