Aptavani 01

SR No.: 007534
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation
Publication Year: 2007
Total Pages: 165
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Akram Vigyan
File Size: 20 KB

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certainly do it. To resolve firmly is egoism. What cannot be achieved through egoism? One day the saint Sahajanand Swami met a King, in the province of Kathiawad. The king told Sahajanand Swami that a very impressive ascetic had come to town. This ascetic had remained buried underground for two weeks. Swami told the king to make the ascetic repeat this feat in his presence. The ascetic, through his ego remained buried underground for fifteen days. At the time of his surfacing, Swami told the King not to send a large procession to greet the ascetic as he had previously done, but instead send just two policemen. When the ascetic surfaced and did not see anyone waiting to greet him, he became enraged and began to shout, "Where is the King? Where is the horse carriage? Where is the band? He collapsed while shouting and died. He lived through his ego and when that ego was not nourished, he died. The definition of ego is to impose yourself where you are not.
In reality 'you' the Self does not die. It is the ego that dies and takes birth again. Death does not occur until the ego endorses it, and the foolish do not refrain from endorsing it. When a person is bed-ridden and suffering with pain, he endorsees his death by saying it would be better to die than go through the suffering. Here the endorsement becomes inevitable.
Who Is The Enjoyer? The Self does not enjoy anything. It cannot enjoy anything. If it were the intrinsic nature of the Self to enjoy, then that tendency would always remain with the Self and liberation would never be achieved. The one who enjoys is merely using his ego when saying 'I enjoyed it'. Senses are effective. Because of causes, the senses become effective. As effects unfold, because of illusion, you egotistically claim to be the doer or the enjoyer. When this illusion of 'I am the doer' is removed and you understand who the real doer is, liberation is at hand. It is
possible to experience liberation even with the body.
The over crowding and congestion today is not because of people but their egos. You can live amidst crowds of egos through Gnan. Nature follows its own laws and so does the Self, but it is the ego between the two (Self and non-self) that is the cause of all suffering; it does what should not be done. It is the ego that perpetuates the worldly life and it is also the ego that causes you to take birth in the four worlds of different life forms. It is this ego that has separated us from the Self.
Even the most attractive person can look repulsive because of the ego. When does one become attractive? One appears attractive when one becomes the embodiment of love (prematma). An attractive person with ego will appear hideous, because the ego is hideous.
Questioner : Are there different kinds of egos?
Dadashri : To refer to a relative thing as 'I am' is ego. Pride with three components, arrogance, envy, respect and disrespect - are all different words used at different times to explain the varying degrees of the ego. That is why the Gnanis have given them different names.
Many people consider themselves humble and modest but the intoxication of calling themselves such is acutely more deluding than those with overt pride and conceit. Vanity is inevitable in those who consider themselves humble and modest. The ego can never be completely destroyed without the knowledge of the Self. And yet people are in pursuit of trying to acquire a state of humility but what about the ensuing increased level of their intoxication? What about the deplorable subtle ego that is born of such a state?
The inner instrument of psyche (antahkaran) remains as it is, even after one acquires Self-realization. The only thing that