Who Am I

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation

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Who Am I?
DID YOU WAKE UP OR WERE YOU AWAKENED?
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If you wake up early in the morning, you will say, "I woke up." What makes you think that you are able to wake up early? At night when you cannot sleep, you will say, "I cannot sleep." If you yourself have control over your sleep then why can you not sleep when you want to? In reality you have no control whatsoever.
If somebody asks, "Who woke me up in the morning?" I would tell him that he woke up because his sleep karma was over. It was his karma that woke him up.
HOW MUCH OF IT IS IN YOUR HANDS?
You, the real You have never eaten. It is Chandulal who consumes the food. You have never eaten anything and yet you believe that you are the one who eats. Chandulal is the one who eats and Chandulal is the one who defecates. You are trapped in this for no reason. Do you understand this?
Questioner: Please explain that.
Dadashri: No man has ever been born who has the independent willpower to defecate. If he does not have the independent power over his own bowels, then what other power can he have? He will realize this when he becomes constipated. When a few things go according to his plans, he thinks he is making them happen.
I had satsang in Baroda with a group of physicians. When I told them that one does not even have the independent control over one's bowels, they were all taken aback. I went on, "You will realize this when you become constipated. At that time you will have to seek external help." You never did have this power in the first place, which is why you have to seek help.
Who Am I? Therefore this is not under your control. It is through your wrong beliefs that you consider nature's powers as your own. To call someone else's power your own power is an illusion; a wrong belief. Do you understand what I am trying to say? Is it a little clearer now?
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Questioner: Yes, I understand.
Dadashri: If you understand even this much, you are closer to solving this puzzle. All these people claim to do penance, japa (repeated incantation), meditation and fasting. All this is an illusion. The world will always carry on like this and will never be without ego. That is its nature. IT HAPPENS...
Dadashri: Do the events that take place, occur because of our control or do they just happen?
Questioner: They just happen by themselves.
Dadashri: Yes, all this just happens. When you wake up in the morning it just happens. When you drink tea it just happens. When you use the lavatory it just happens. When you sleep it just happens. Are you making all these things happen or do they just happen?
Questioner: It just happens.
Dadashri: When you are working at a job, does it happen or are you doing it?
Questioner: It happens.
Dadashri: Yes, so in this world, 'It happens.' This is what the world is all about. Things just happen. But people say: "I am doing it." "I went to the toilet." "I did this." "I earned this money." And so on... When something is happening by itself and we say, "I am doing it." we are creating new karma (sowing new seeds of karma). If you stop creating (charging) new