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I am the Soul
the greatest shortcoming in you - your ego gets flattened. The moment the feeling of accepting refuge awakens, the ego starts melting. For it is impossible to accept refuge with somebody unless you become the most unassuming.
The ego lying in the jiva keeps showing up whenever, wherever it likes. The 'I am somebody' feeling never dies.
Once upon a time in a village, a lady was going somewhere. She was accosted by another coming down the way.
The latter asked, "Where had you been?"
"I had been to your house asking buttermilk, but your daughter-in-law said there was none," said the former.
"What! Did my daughter-in-law say so? Come, come along with me."
The latter took the former again to her house. After getting in there, the latter turned towards the former and said, "There is no buttermilk". The former was stunned. She said, "Hey, what is this? This I had learnt from your daughter-in-law too. I thought you pulled me along because you had buttermilk and she did not know about it."
The latter said, "No, it isn't that. There never was any buttermilk. But since when did my daughter-in-law take over the rights to this house? How could she tell you that there was no buttermilk. Am I not here? How can she say no while I am here? I had to teach her a lesson, so I brought you back."
That is what you call EGO! What a false pride! These trifles give us the measure of the human mind. Brothers! In all of us, there are many such egos. In truth, there is but one ego, but it is habituated to going in several directions. To break this ego, Srimadji has ordered us to place our engrossment in the Sadguru.
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This engrossment has been called samakit - point, let us deliberate a little over samakit.
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