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tell the manager, ‘This bank is mine so why don’t you leave?’
What will he tell you? So everything that you believe to be yours
will one day put you in ‘jail’ (causes bondage). So then why
would you want to believe this? Besides what good does simply
‘believing’ do? There should be a firm decision about what is
exact and precise; beliefs have no basis. On the contrary, you
will be ridiculed and thrown in jail.
Everything binds you because you created my-ness
towards it. Nothing belongs to you, not even the body. It would
be your friend if it were truly yours. But look how much pain
and suffering it gives you before it leaves and ‘You’ have to
vacate the ‘home’. In which past life have you departed without
my-ness (mamata)? You have died as an uncle, you have died
as a father; you have done all this. Dying without my-ness is the
entrance to liberation. And if you die with mamata then this
world is always there for you to come back to. You have died
in every past life but that mamata has not gone, has it? It still
remains. Now you have also attained the knowledge that this
mamata is not real and yet it has not gone. It is very difficult to
attain the knowledge that teaches you ‘mamata is not real’; it
is extremely rare and difficult.
The one with mamata is not the Self
I have made you without mamata; attachment or my-ness
and you still do not validate this by saying so. I have made you
without mamata but you still do not say, ‘I too am without
mamata.’
Questioner: But how can mamata go away?
Dadashri: Your mamata is gone after attaining this
Gnan. So now why would you want to remove it again? Your
‘shop’ was a partnership between you and Chandulal and now
it is divided. Chandulal is the one with mamata and there is no
problem with that, but You are without mamata, now. The
partnership in the shop has been divided so with whom does the