Aptavani 09

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

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Unbound by any loation...the vidhi under a tree...
I, lawyer, Mangaddas
Let me explain this ‘potey I am' to you. One lawyer came to see me. I asked, 'What's your name?' He replied, 'Mangaddas.' I asked him, What do you do for a living?' He replied, 'I am a lawyer.' I asked him, 'Do you say 'I am a lawyer'?' He replied, 'I am the lawyer.' I asked, 'So then who is this Mangaddas?' He replied, 'I'. Then I asked him 'Then who is the lawyer?' he said, 'I'. So, I told him 'So then you have to say, 'I lawyer Mangaddas, no?
That is like what one person at someone's door was saying. A man knocked on someone's door at night, when everyone was asleep. The owner asked 'Who is knocking on the door this late at night?' The he replied, 'I'. The owner asked 'l' who? Identify yourself otherwise I will not open the door.' So the reply came, 'I, am the bavo (ascetic)' The man asked, 'But tell me which bavo?' So the man at the door said, 'I bavo Mangaddas.' Then the owner opened the door.
That is how this 'I lawyer Mangaddas' is. So when you took this Gnan, the 'Lawyer' and the 'Mangadas' went away, but the 'potey I am still