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bhaav) is egoism. Use that egoism positively if you want worldly
comforts; do not do anything negative in it. If you want only
miseries, then maintain a negative ego and if you want a mixture
of happiness and misery, then do positive and negative together.
But if you want liberation, free yourself from the wrong belief
and come into the nature of the Self (swa-bhaav). The whole
world revolves around these three statements. You are in
compliance with the dictates of every religion if you understand
these three statements and abide by them.
Therefore there are only these three statements:
1. Have a positive ego to be happy. Positive ego is the
ego of not hurting any living being, in the slightest degree.
2. Negative ego is the cause of unhappiness and misery.
If someone insults you and you harbor animosity and enmity
towards that person, then it is a negative ego. If you complain
to the authorities about someone who he is hoarding goods
illegally in his home, you are avenging yourself. You fool! You
had that man arrested because of your animosity? Just for
vengeance! This is a negative ego.
3. Become free from the false projection (aropit bhaav) of
Self on the worldly self (I am Chandulal) if you want liberation.
Negative ego is a bad thing. The moment you look to
send someone to jail, you are imprisoning yourself. Your thinking
should be that whatever comes your way, it comes to you
because of your past mistakes so accept it and ‘deposit’ it into
your karmic account. When someone insults you, accept the
insult and do not lash out if you want to stop the karmic
accounts with him. If you can afford to continue the business of
this worldly life, then you can retaliate with twice the force.
Do what you like. When you give people respect and you
know that the consequences of doing so are good, then you can
respect them. It is written in Aptavani One (Dadashri’s first