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galan (influx-output).
Even the ego is subject to the puran-galan phenomenon.
When a person attends a wedding, as a guest his ego is fed
(puran) when he is greeted with a lot of attention; however,
when he does not get any attention, the ego will discharge
(galan). When anger suddenly erupts, it will be at 500° and then
it will gradually drop down to 400º, to 300º, to 200º, to 100º,
and finally to 0º.
Even greed is subject to puran-galan. Everything continues
to be puran-galan.
Questioner: What is the difference between the Self (the
Atma) and the non-Self complex (the pudgal)?
Dadashri: The Self is a single element (vastu). Element
means that it does not increase or decrease; it has its own
exclusive natural (swabhavik) state. This is not the case with the
pudgal. The pudgal is not a natural thing.
What do we call a pudgal? Putting food into this body,
the non-Self complex, is puran, and emptying the bowels or
bladder is galan. Inhaling is puran and exhaling is galan. The
word ‘pudgal’ is derived from the word ‘purgal’, short form of
pur-an-gal-an.
There is pudgal and there is Atma (the Self) in this
body. The one who can know how to separate the two has
found the Self. But human beings do not have that capability;
the Self is beyond the senses, it is beyond the mind and
intellect. The Lord resides within the Gnani Purush, so what
can a person not attain, through the grace of the Gnani
Purush?
The Grace of the Gnani
Questioner: Will the grace (krupa) of ‘Dada Bhagwan’
flow equally on to everyone sitting here?