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Dadashri: Ego means ignorance. And Gnan means absence of ego; an egoless state. So there is no ego that cannot be dissolved through Gnan. Gnan is the egoless state and ignorance is the state with ego; there are only these two states.
Extent of mamata: 'My-ness'
The world keeps nurturing and watering the plant of mamata. One keeps nurturing it by projecting, “This is mine', 'this is mine.' If you ask them what is not theirs, they will tell you this is not ours. This is my brother's' Then a few years later they tell you, 'My brother has taken away some of our things', and then they will go to court. Then they die and their children will fight complaining about the same thing. Now will you not call such a person a sack of misguided intellect akkal? If he tries to sell this, no one would pay even a dime for their it, would they?
Their mamata 'my-ness' goes even as far as, 'This country of India, it is ours.' Then what do they claim about the state of Gujarat? They will say, Gujarat is ours'. And in Gujarat some will say, 'Our disctrict of Charotar is very good.' One becomes the owner of entire Charotar. Then in Charotar, a person from the town of Anand will say, 'We the people of Anand are like this' and a person from the town of Bhadran will say, 'Our Bhadran people are like this.' He becomes the owner of the whole village. Then people from two different streets from the same village will argue, 'Our street is better than yours.' Then two families from the same street argue about their families. This goes down all the way to two brothers arguing about who is better. So it is the same everywhere and people try to protect their little ownerships. They try to protect- own the whole country, and the whole state of Gujarat. What is the point of spreading the ownership all through out India? One has not doen anything for his own salavation and yet he is busy claiming and spreading ownership all around.
Now who creates this divisiveness of view drashtibheda? The intellect buddhi does that It will be so divisive that it will make one say, 'I have nothing to do other people.' 'This is our home, this is ours and that is ours. We do not have anything to do with anyone else,' this is how divisive it is; these are the kind of divisiveness it creates. If you were to ask someone,
Since you claim this is your home, then you must not have any separation due to differences in your home?' He will tell you, 'No there are no
