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imagined it to be. They just go on believing it in their minds, and
that is how they carry on the whole day and night, drifting
aimlessly, and wandering around for infinite lifetimes, without
even losing a single avatar (lifetime).
‘I-ness’ Cannot End Through Your Efforts
Dadashri: What is your name?
Questioner: Chandubhai.
Dadashri: Are you convinced that you are really
Chandubhai?
Questioner: People have given me my name.
Dadashri: So then, what are you really? Do you not say,
‘My name is Chandubhai’? Then who is the one that says ‘my’?
Questioner: That is what I am searching for. ‘Who am
I?’ is what I search for.
Dadashri: How long have you been searching for that?
Questioner: For two years.
Dadashri: Were you not searching before? Why?
Questioner: I did not need to, and I did not have that
kind of understanding.
Dadashri: Goodness! You didn’t understand that you
needed to know this knowledge! That is fine. That is why this
knowledge, ‘Wh