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goon dharma, if it exhibits its innate nature. The belief of ‘I am
the body’, or to believe the body, the non-self, to be your real
identity is par-dharma (dharma of another). To believe the Self
(Soul) as the Self is sva-dharma (own dharma). That is atma-
dharma, dharma of the Self.
Dadashri : Who Are You?
Questioner : I am Chandulal.
Dadashri : What is your name?
Questioner : My name is Chandulal.
Dadashri : Do you see a contradiction in the statements
‘I am Chandulal’ and ‘My name is Chandulal’? How can the
name and the entity it belongs to, be one and the same? When
a person dies, his name is taken away from him during his
funeral rites, is it not? It is even removed from the census
records.
Who does this hand belong to? Who does this leg belong
to?
Questioner : They are mine.
Dadashri : They are all parts of this body. What is yours
in all that? Who does the mind within you belong to?
Questioner : It is mine.
Dadashri : What about speech?
Questioner : It is mine.
Dadashri : Whose body is this?
Questioner : That is mine too.
Dadashri : When you say, ‘it is mine’, does it not occur
to you that the owner of these body parts is separate from the