Aptavani 09

Author(s): Gnani Purush Dadashri
Publisher: Gnani Purush Dadashri

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life's interactions are ideal. He is 'dramatic' for the whole day. Only if 'Iness' is gone, one can remain dramatic.
To protect the relative self is 'I-ness'. To protect the relative self in a deceitful way is known as deeper 'I-ness'.
What is the test to find out if 'I-ness' is gone? If there is no change in the facial expression or within, even after one is asked nine times to get off the car and asked nine times to get back in the car. The knowledge of scientific circumstantial evidence frees one from ‘I-ness' potapanu.
Except for the Gnani Purush, everyone has 'I-ness'. When the 'Iness' is gone, one becomes a God!
Once 'I-ness' is gone, it is gone forever.
After receiving Gnan, the ego that charges karma is gone but the discharge ego has remains and that discharge ego is known as 'I-ness'. When all the discharge ego is gone, one is said to be free from potapanu.
'I-ness' is decreased in proportion to the level of awareness. What kind of awareness is required to get rid of 'I-ness'? This is I and this is not l'. Constant awareness of the Self, following the Agnas of the Gnani Purush and seeing others as faultless and non-doers.
No matter what the result, saying 'I am not this' makes one free.
Where 'I-ness' is gone, there is no ego of doer-ship, and no wallowing in worldly pleasures garavta
To favor on the side of the ego, to favor on the side of ignorance, to step away from the Self; all this is called 'I-ness'.
Not to become absorbed tanmayakar in the scientific circumstantial evidence is purushartha the Self oriented effort. Pragnya the force of the Self, prevents this absorption process in the unfolding scientific circumstantial evidence of the non-Self, whereas agnya intellect will make one absorbed in the unfolding scientific circumstantial evidence.