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not the owner of the body. ‘We’ are not the owner of the mind.
The sweetness of doer-ship (garva
meethash) is the cause of worldly life
Questioner: What is garva? Is there a difference
between garva and abhimaan (pride with ‘my-ness’)?
Dadashri: What happens when you place garva and
abhimaan on the opposite sides of the scale? Do they weigh the
same? Abhimaan will be a quarter of a pound and garva will
be forty pounds.
Questioner: How is that, can you please explain that?
Dadashri: People do not understand abhimaan or
garva. Abhimaan is different, garva is different and ahamkar
is different.
Questioner: So does garva mean ‘I-ness’ (hoonpad)?
Dadashri: No, the ‘I-ness’ (hoonpad) is ego. ‘I am
Chandulal’ is ego. At times you may or may not have
abhimaan, you may not even have garva. Hoonpad (I-ness) is
to believe to be where you are not. Those who are not in the
swapad (the Self), are in the hoonpad.
But what is garvaras? Garvaras is very sticky.
Abhimaan is mild and docile in comparison. It is very light,
whereas garva is very heavy.
Questioner: Can you explain garvaras with an example?
Dadashri: In abhimaan one does not have the sense ‘I
am the doer of all this.’ In garvaras he believes ‘I am the doer’.
So being the doer in one thing, he also believes he is the doer
in the entire universe. So garvaras extends very far and wide.
Does anyone do garva? There is garva in everything. The
sense of, ‘I am doing’ is all garva.
When the awareness of ‘I am doing’ went away for