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Liberation with the laghuttam ego
Questioner: How do you define laghuttam? Is bringing our ego to a zero level considered being laghuttam?
Dadashri: No. The ego remains the same but it is also an ego to say 'I am smaller than everyone.' Laghu means 'am small', laghuttar means 'am even smaller than small' and laghuttam means 'everyone is bigger than me.' That too is a kind of an ego ahamkar.
Now the world is based on the ego of guruttam, which is the intent to be bigger than anyone else; it is the belief that I am greater than everyone. That verily is the cause of this sansaar worldly life. Whereas with a laghuttam ego, one goes towards attaining liberation moksha. Laghuttam ego means to conduct the worldly life interactions with the intent, 'I am smaller than everyone.' That will take him towards liberation. By believing, 'I am greater than everyone', one enters into a ‘race course' and on to the wrong path through unawareness. With laghuttam ego one gradually becomes smaller and smaller until he becomes completely laghuttam. So one becomes Paramatma, the absolute Self.
There is no racecourse in laghuttam
Up until now, all the efforts have been towards becoming guruttam, have they not? 'I want to be greater than him; I want to be greater than him.' See, the competition has begun, has it not? Who wins the prize? The prize goes only to the horse that comes first. What about the rest? There is no prize for them even after running so hard.
Questioner: Dada is there a racecourse in a laghuttam state?
Dadashri: No there cannot be any racecourse in the state of laghuttam. The racecourse is in the guruttam state. So I have no intellect abuddha and I am in a laghuttam state and therefore I do not have a relation of exchange of kashaya with anyone. There is not an iota of intellect in me.
The racecourses of worldly life and spardha
