Aptavani-6
89
completion is 7/8, and that will happen. You have become siddha
(free), have you not? You have received the approval stamp,
have you not? Then why have fear? If someone comes from
above and says, ‘Sir, come on to liberation (moksha),’ I will tell
him, ‘What is the big hurry?’ If he says, ‘We feel for you; we
love you,’ I would tell him, ‘Do not have feelings for me, I am
not someone you need to have feelings for; I have my moksha
with me!’ What else can be there after the state of happiness,
the unaffected state of nirakudata? Otherwise, worries and
anxiety will make you run around again and again. Egoism will
make you roam around life after life.
Echoes of the Ego in the Worldly Life
Ego makes one blind. The greater one’s ego, the blinder
one becomes.
Questioner: Is ego not needed to do work?
Dadashri: No, that lifeless ego (nirjiv ahamkar) is
different. That is not called ego at all. People will not even refer
to such a person as being egotistic.
Questioner: Then which ego is harmful?
Dadashri: You all know me as a Gnani Purush, but do
people outside in the worldly life know that I am a Gnani? Yet
people will not see anything in me that will lead them to call me
egotistic (ahamkari), whereas they might say that about you. It
is the ego that has ruined everything.
Questioner: But does the worldly life not run on this
ego?
Dadashri: The worldly life does not run on the ego. The
ego should not go beyond its boundary; otherwise, it will be
harmful.
Questioner: The echoes of our old ego have fallen on