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experiences is due to his actions of the past life. But other
people will not understand this. This is all due to their lalacha
(greed). Their greed is very obvious and visible and wherever
there is greed, mamata is bound to be there without fail. ‘We’
had lot of pride (maan) but ‘we’ did not have any mamata
at all.
Questioner: So does the ego exist because of greed
(lalacha) and my-ness (mamata)?
Dadashri: ‘I’ exists because of ‘my’. Otherwise, the ‘I’
part is the pure Soul if you get rid of the ‘my’ part. The ego will
exist as long as ‘my’ is associated with the ‘I’. He whose ‘my’
is gone, loses his ego and becomes the supreme Soul
(parmatma)! This is as clear as daylight!
The nature of mamata
That in which ‘my-ness’, enters; that wherein one projects
the self, is what we call mamata. For example, when you say,
‘this teacup is mine’, you give ‘my-ness’ to it and so what
happens when it breaks? There is problem even when your
teacup breaks! In fact, if I tell this child to throw away this
teacup, he will shrug his shoulders and say, ‘How can I throw
it away?’ Can you not understand the mamata in this? Why
does he shrug his shoulders right away? Then if you tell him,
‘throw out Dadaji’s shoes’ he will say, ‘I cannot do that.’ Look
how particular those who have understanding can be, it is only
because of the ego that everything has gone wrong. The ego of
‘Hum, hum, hum! Hum means ‘I’.
Questioner: Does the ego dissolve through Gnan?
Dadashri: Ego means ignorance. And Gnan means
absence of ego; an egoless state. So there is no ego that
cannot be dissolved through Gnan. Gnan is the egoless state
and ignorance is a state with ego; there are only these two
states.