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The road of spirituality is one that if you take that road, you can see no other worldly road. That road is very different. So where does spirituality (adhyatma) begin? It is when you stop seeing the things on this side (the worldly life). Nevertheless it will stay on your mind. Those phases (paryaya) and circumstances (avastha) that there are, will be stuck in your mind, but you will stop seeing that road. So it is called spirituality (adhyatma) when it stays on your mind, but you no longer see it with your eyes.
That is how it is. In the spiritual path, you must first distinguish between what is good and beneficial for you, and what is not beneficial. You must seize whatever is beneficial. And you must steer away from that which is not beneficial. That is the distinction you have to make first.
This Chandubhai is just a name, in order to remain in the interaction in the worldly life (vyavahar). You are not just Chandubhai, you are also this lady's husband. You are this boy's father, you are his maternal uncle (mama), you are his paternal uncle (kaka). How many of these entanglements possess (lafra) you? Spirituality (adhyatma) and worldly entanglements (lafra) are very far apart. Only when there are no entanglements, can spirituality surface. Now, to get rid of these entanglements is not an easy thing. Will they ever go, just by your giving them up? Even if you come here, those entanglements will even come and fetch you from here. Are those entanglements likely to ever leave you alone?
So, I am Chandubhai' is fine, as far as the worldly interactions (vyavahar) are concerned, but it is not so in reality. So do we not need to know what we really are? The real way is what will come with us, and worldly interaction will be left behind. Your name and everything else will be left behind, will it not? You are nameless (anami).
Now you are considered to have entered spirituality, when you have the enlightened vision of the Self (samyak darshan).
