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Aptavani-9
Dadashri: But have you become somewhat laghutam? Two cents or four cents worth?!
Questioner: But how can we measure that?
Dadashri: You will know that you have not become completely laghutam when you are fighting with someone. You still have the tendency to attack people, 'who does he think he is?' So now you have to look for laghutam. Do you want to become gurutam or laghutam?
Questioner: Laghutam.
Dadashri: You like it when people give you importance and yet you say you want to become laghutam? When people put their hands together and do namaste' to you, you feel happy, and then you say, 'I want to become laghutam.' The baggage within is so difficult and complicated; everywhere there is baggage of only gurutam. Despite this, what should your vision (drashti) be?
Questioner: To become laghutam.
Dadashri: Then the soul within will continue to become gurutam. 'We' sit here having become laghutam. 'Our' Self is gurutam. You too have to cultivate the same vision. What else, there is nothing difficult in this.
What does our Vignan say? What does Akram Vignan say? However much laghutam you become in the relative. You will become gurutam by that much in the real: You will become absolute. Is there anything wrong in this? Otherwise, the entire world is trying to be gurutam in the relative. That is why we have bulls and buffalos here! What is the basis for their existence? It is simply because of this mistake of wanting to be gurutam in the relative. So should you not break this mistake once you are born as a human? Don't you think the mistake needs to be broken?
Where there is total laghutam, there is the
state of the absolute The one who has attained a state of 'devaluation' (devaluing the relative-self) in the relative becomes absolute in the real. Therefore, devaluation in the relative is needed. You may eat, drink and enjoy, but there must be devaluation, nothing else. Does the devaluation of the rupees that occurs sometimes, affect people? Life goes on. Sometimes there is devaluation and sometimes there is elevation. But does that affect people at large? Similarly there is no harm in devaluing the relative life. On the contrary, there is nothing but gain. You just have to live happily. Just look at me. I am sitting here having gone through the process of devaluation. What fun it is.
Now what am I saying? Your absolute state will blossom as your devaluation of the relative increases. So is this not the easiest way? Is anything difficult in this? There is nothing else to understand here and laghutam will not make you worry about anything. See is there any worry about money after devaluation? Before, how many worries did you have when there was 'valuation'? People had anxieties and fear about being attacked on their way to the bank. Now there is nobody there to attack and no worries. There is no problem after devaluation.
If you are a millionaire but you know how to maintain humility, if you know how to sit low, you begin to become laghutam (be humble) in other ways, you will become gurutam at the other end, the Self.
The one who tries to be laghutam in the relative, will become gurutam in the real; his state will become absolute. You do not have to do anything in order to become gurutam. So in your worldly interactions, when you want to say anything just keep in mind, there is no jiva (living being) smaller than myself. I am the smallest. If you maintain this awareness, it is more than enough. If you become laghutam only then will you attain the
