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experiences is due to his actions of the past life. But other people will not understand this. This is all due to their lalacha (greed). Their greed is very obvious and visible and wherever there is greed, mamata is bound to be there without fail. 'We' had lot of pride (maan) but 'we' did not have any mamata at all.
Questioner: So does the ego exist because of greed (lalacha) and my-ness (mamata)?
Dadashri: 'T' exists because of 'my'. Otherwise, the 'T' part is the pure Soul if you get rid of the 'my' part. The ego will exist as long as 'my' is associated with the T. He whose 'my' is gone, loses his ego and becomes the supreme Soul (parmatma)! This is as clear as daylight!
The nature of mamata That in which 'my-ness, enters that wherein one projects the self, is what we call mamata. For example, when you say, "this teacup is mine', you give 'my-ness' to it and so what happens when it breaks? There is problem even when your teacup breaks! In fact, if I tell this child to throw away this teacup, he will shrug his shoulders and say, 'How can I throw it away?'' Can you not understand the mamata in this? Why does he shrug his shoulders right away? Then if you tell him, "throw out Dadaji's shoes' he will say, 'I cannot do that.' Look how particular those who have understanding can be, it is only because of the ego that everything has gone wrong. The ego of 'Hum, hum, hum! Hum means 'I'.
Questioner: Does the ego dissolve through Gnan?
Dadashri: Ego means ignorance. And Gnan means absence of ego; an egoless state. So there is no ego that cannot be dissolved through Gnan. Gnan is the egoless state and ignorance is a state with ego; there are only these two states.
The extent of mamata (my-ness)
The world keeps nurturing and watering the plant of mamata. One keeps nurturing it by projecting 'This is mine... this is mine. 'If you ask them what is not theirs, they will tell you this is not ours. This is my brother's' Then a few years later they tell you, 'My brother has taken away some of our things, and then they will go to court. Then they die and their children will fight complaining about the same thing. Now will you not call such a person 'a sack of misguided intellect? If he tries to sell this 'sack of intellect', no one will pay even a dime for it will they?
Their mamata; their 'my-ness' goes even as far as, "This country of India, is ours.' Then what do they claim about the state of Gujarat? They will say, 'Gujarat is ours. 'And in Gujarat some will say, 'Our district of Charotar is very good.' One becomes the owner of entire Charotar! Then in Charotar, a person from the town of Anand will say, 'We the people of Anand are like this and a person from the town of Bhadran will say, 'Our Bhadran people are like this. 'He becomes the owner of the whole village. Then people from two different streets from the same village will argue, 'Our street is better than yours.' Then two families from the same street argue about their families. This goes down all the way to two brothers arguing about who is better. So it is the same everywhere and people try to protect their little ownerships. They try to protect (own) the whole country, and the whole state of Gujarat. What is the point of spreading ownership all throughout India? One has not done anything for his own salvation and yet he is busy claiming and spreading ownership all around.
Now who creates this drashtibhed (a vision of division)? The intellect (buddhi) creates it. It will be so divisive that it will make one say, 'I have nothing to do with those other people.' "This is our home, this is ours and that is ours. We do not have anything to do with anyone else,' this is how divisive it is, these
