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So is it better to be a God or to have God become very pleased with you? Which state is better?
Questioner: The state where God becomes very pleased with us.
Dadashri: Now who would give up a higher state for a lower one? And I assure you that God is very pleased with me. I also tell him, 'Why don't you leave?' and he tells me, 'Where can I go? I will tell you if there is any place. 'I told him, 'If you manifest within someone else, I do not have any problems with that. You have stayed here for many days.' But surely there has to be a suitable place where He can go, right? That location has to be without mamata - without 'my-ness'; without ego, only then can God manifest there. Such a 'room' is needed. Does he not need a good place?
God can become pleased with anyone. If a person has a little ego there is no problem, however God will inevitably become pleased with the one in whom all mamata ('my-ness') is gone. He will be very pleased with the one whose mamata is completely gone.
Junior of the junior
I am the only junior in this world. A person can become a senior of the entire universe if he becomes a junior of juniors. I am the only remaining junior. Do you want to make me a senior? If you do, you will become the junior of a junior.
Questioner: But as compared to you, we are like little
children!
Dadashri: That is a different matter altogether and what I am talking about is different. People think I am a guru, but I am not a guru; I am laghutam. Laghutam means junior. Everyone and everything around me are my seniors. The trees, the leaves, they are all senior to me. So would you like to be a senior or a junior from now on?
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Questioner: In that sense, I would like to be a junior of all juniors.
Dadashri: Yes, yes. There is benefit in it. Then you can become a senior of all seniors. Those who want to remain as a junior of all juniors; they will be able to become the senior of a senior.
LCM: Lowest common factor is God
When I was young, a teacher in a Gujarati School told us to learn laghutam (LCM). So I asked him, 'What do you mean by laghutam? How can something be laghutam?' He replied, 'You have to find the smallest indivisible number, a number that cannot be further divided, from the numbers I have given you." At that age, do you know what term I used for people and individuals? I used to say, 'this 'number' (rakam) is no good." Therefore, this subject suited me. I used the same terminology. So then it occurred to me, it is the same in these 'numbers' (humans) too, is it not?' I thought to myself, is it not the same in these 'numbers' (human beings) too? God dwells in everyone in an indivisible form.
From that moment onwards, my nature began to lean towards laghutam. It did not become laghutam but it began to lean towards laghutam and then eventually it became laghutam. Now "by relative view point I am completely laghutam and by real view point I am completely gurutam." Therefore, in matters concerning worldly dealings, I am laghutam. I was able to adopt this theory of laghutam right from the beginning.
Only the laghutam state has value
Questioner: So Dada why do you give so much importance to the laghutam state?
Dadashri: This laghutam is forever a safe side. The one who is gurutam has fears. There is no fear of falling if I say laghutam, is there? Those who sit higher have fear of falling.
