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intoxication will arise and the feeling of ‘I am something’ will
always remain. It will even remain during sleep. That is why the
Lord had said, “Any gnan or scripture that causes intoxication
is agnan (ignorance).” Atmagnan is different in every person, but
only the Atmagnan of the vitarag will not cause intoxication. On
the contrary, the speech of the vitarag reduces intoxication. Here
people tell you ‘Do it this way and that way. Renounce this. Do
penance etc.’, this causes tremendous intoxication. It is good for
a life in the celestial world, but not for liberation. ‘Our’ speech
will reduce intoxication and the big toe of ‘Our’ foot (surrender
at the feet of the Gnani) is the only ‘solvent’ in this world that
will dissolve your ego.
Questioner : Can the ego be dissolved?
Dadashri : Yes, ‘Our’ speech is such that it will dissolve
the ego. It dissolves anger, pride, deceit and greed. A Sheth
came to ‘us’ in Ahmedabad and told us, “Take away my anger
from me.” So ‘We’ did. The Gnani Purush has everything to
dissolve anything.
What is the support of anger, pride, deceit and greed?
What supports them? People say, “I get angry. This happens to
me. That happens to me?” When they say, ‘it happens to me’,
that is the support behind the kashays. They support the kashays
by saying ‘it is happening to me’, which is why the kashays
remain. Everything dissolves when the Gnani Purush takes away
that support. It is not possible to reduce anger gradually, besides
if the anger goes down, then pride will increase on the other
side. People go around without any idea of their real Self, they
have no idea of who they are and then they take the
responsibility on to themselves. They continue to suffer the
worldly life without the awareness of who they really are.
Three keys to becoming happy
In short, the (wrong belief) of ‘I am Chandubhai,’ (aropit