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Dadashri: You see your 'I-ness' if someone gives you your
favorite ice cream and then takes it away, before you had a chance to taste it. You will see your 'I-ness' when someone takes your favorite things away from you. In all such instances, you will be able to see your 'I-ness' very clearly.
Everyone has this own favorite things or things to in life. These are specially protected. When these special protections of the 'I-ness' go away, so will the 'I-ness'. Is it likely to go away as long as there is fondness for it?
Questioner: I did not understand that. Are you talking about all the things that I am fond shokha of or fondness for the 'I-ness' in these matters, i.e. becoming deeply absorbed, Chandulal in these matters shokheen?
Dadashri: Only when the fondness for 'I-ness' goes away. There is no problem if all other fondness shokha do not go. Fondness for 'Iness' is very strong indeed. One will be adamant and insist, 'You will have to do exactly as I say'. Therefore, there is no problem if fondness for all other things remain.
Questioner: Fondness for 'I-ness' - is it the same thing as making others do according to what one wants dharyoo karavoo?
Dadashri: Not like that.
Questioner: Then what?
Dadashri: 'I-ness'! Everyone in the whole world has it. One becomes a God when his 'I-ness' potapanu goes away. The one who has no 'I-ness' is a God. Although I have given Gnan to everyone, all of you still have the 'I-ness'. You will become a God when the 'I-ness' goes away. You are a God at present, but you have not become one because you still have the 'I-ness'. When you no longer have the 'I-ness', you will become a God.
