Book Title: Aptavani 09
Author(s): Gnani Purush Dadashri
Publisher: Gnani Purush Dadashri

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________________ Questioner: I would get out. Dadashri: Immediately? Questioner: Immediately! I would get off. Dadashri: Would you not say, 'No I will not get out?? Then as you walk away, he calls you back. You would go back would you not? And you would do so without a change of expression on your face, right? So what have I said? If this remains nine times over without any effect at all, then I will tell you you have become 'Dada'. If he does this nine times, and you get on and off nine times, and in all those nine times, You do not see the person telling you to get on or off as the doer, see vyavasthit as verily the 'doer', then You are free from 'I ness'. And if you are invited back, there is nothing in the mind, the face remains smiling as if nothing has happened, and this is the case while getting off also. Then see the beauty of it all! What is this state called? It shows that this one is not protecting the prakruti and therefore the potapanu is gone. Potey the one protecting the prakruti is 'I-ness' potapanu. But here the very prakruti one wants to be liberated from, is the one that is being protected. That is when 'I-ness' will go away Now, I am not telling You that You should not protect the prakruti but You should feel that this level in the Gnan should be attained. I am not asking for the conduct vartan, charitra. When will the conduct come? When this becomes established in the conviction pratiti, shraddha, then it will result in the gnan knowledge. When this knowledge gnan increases as experience anubhav, Gnan , then it will manifest in the conduct vartan, charitra. TO If someone asked you to get out of the car, there will be an initial effect asar but later as things calm down, Gnan presents. This way it will gradually gel and solidify from within and it will fit. At first, it comes as conviction pratiti, and later in the process of arriving at the level of

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