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tough or tender? Some people will simply go to the shop and ask the shop keeper to weigh some okra for them and they may get good okra.
And what are you going to do if they turn out to be old and stale? That is how it is in the worldly life. Only sometimes do you get stale things; you don’ t get it every day. Then there is also one’ s merit karma accumulated from good acts( punya), is there not? A good man’ s punya is always good! That punya is always present for him ahead. Only for a meddling person will the punya be meddlesome.
The Nature of Ego Questioner: What is ego?
Dadashri: Ego is not a thing. Someone tells you,‘ You are Chandubhai,’ and you believe that you are‘ Chandubhai’; that is ego.
Questioner: But when it is hurt, there is no awareness of what is right and what is wrong.
Dadashri: The ego is always blind; it does not have eyes.
Questioner: So is it higher( greater) than the rest of them( mind, intellect and chit)?
Dadashri: Yes, it is the leader. It is under the ego’ s leadership that all this goes on.
Questioner: So then what adjustment should one take at that time?
Dadashri: What adjustment can you take? You( the Self) just have to continue‘ seeing’ how blind the ego is; this is the adjustment you make.
The ego is not a thing, not something tangible. When‘ You’ believe,‘ This( the relative-self) is I,’ that is all an ego. Only the