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intoxication will arise and the feeling of 'I am something' will always remain. It will even remain during sleep. That is why the Lord had said, "Any gnan or scripture that causes intoxication is agnan (ignorance)." Atmagnan is different in every person, but only the Atmagnan of the vitarag will not cause intoxication. On the contrary, the speech of the vitarag reduces intoxication. Here people tell you 'Do it this way and that way. Renounce this. Do penance etc., this causes tremendous intoxication. It is good for a life in the celestial world, but not for liberation. Our speech will reduce intoxication and the big toe of Our' foot (surrender at the feet of the Gnani) is the only 'solvent' in this world that will dissolve your ego.
Questioner : Can the ego be dissolved?
Dadashri : Yes, 'Our' speech is such that it will dissolve the ego. It dissolves anger, pride, deceit and greed. A Sheth came to 'us' in Ahmedabad and told us, "Take away my anger from me." So 'We' did. The Gnani Purush has everything to dissolve anything.
What is the support of anger, pride, deceit and greed? What supports them? People say, "I get angry. This happens to me. That happens to me?" When they say, 'it happens to me that is the support behind the kashays. They support the kashays by saying 'it is happening to me', which is why the kashays remain. Everything dissolves when the Gnani Purush takes away that support. It is not possible to reduce anger gradually, besides if the anger goes down, then pride will increase on the other side. People go around without any idea of their real Self, they have no idea of who they are and then they take the responsibility on to themselves. They continue to suffer the worldly life without the awareness of who they really are.
Three keys to becoming happy In short, the (wrong belief) of 'I am Chandubhai.' (aropit
bhaav) is egoism. Use that egoism positively if you want worldly comforts, do not do anything negative in it. If you want only miseries, then maintain a negative ego and if you want a mixture of happiness and misery, then do positive and negative together But if you want liberation, free yourself from the wrong belief and come into the nature of the Self (swa-bhaav). The whole world revolves around these three statements. You are in compliance with the dictates of every religion if you understand these three statements and abide by them.
Therefore there are only these three statements:
1. Have a positive ego to be happy. Positive ego is the ego of not hurting any living being, in the slightest degree.
2. Negative ego is the cause of unhappiness and misery. If someone insults you and you harbor animosity and enmity towards that person, then it is a negative ego. If you complain to the authorities about someone who he is hoarding goods illegally in his home, you are avenging yourself. You fool! You had that man arrested because of your animosity? Just for vengeance! This is a negative ego.
3. Become free from the false projection (aropit bhaav) of Self on the worldly self (I am Chandulal) if you want liberation.
Negative ego is a bad thing. The moment you look to send someone to jail, you are imprisoning yourself. Your thinking should be that whatever comes your way, it comes to you because of your past mistakes so accept it and deposit it into your karmic account. When someone insults you, accept the insult and do not lash out if you want to stop the karmic accounts with him. If you can afford to continue the business of this worldly life, then you can retaliate with twice the force.
Do what you like. When you give people respect and you know that the consequences of doing so are good, then you can respect them. It is written in Aptavani One (Dadashri's first
