Aptavani-9
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Dadashri: It is not to hurt anyone. He wants to enjoy and
keep on tasting doer-ship (garvaras) in it. There is no
substance in whatever he does when he enjoys the greatest
garvaras of, ‘I know it, I understand it’. Anything is done with
the foundation of this assumption has no substance. It is not
worth mentioning. Do not expose it too much. I expose it to
some extent and it looks bad. As long as one harbors the belief,
‘I know’, his face will never look fresh.
Questioner: But how can that be attained without the
ego?
Dadashri: What kind of ego does one need to maintain?
The ego one needs to maintain is where anything is done, it is
done with the ego of, ‘I do not know anything’. Such an ego will
give benefits, otherwise how can it? Otherwise it will only serve
to increase the ‘poison’, the poison within will keep increasing
for sure. If someone who knows all the four Vedas comes and
tells me, ‘I know all that’, then I will tell him in just one sentence,
‘you have not known even a drop worth!’ The definition of
knowing is that where one does not need to say anything.
Questioner: Can a person attain the goal if his ego is
saatvik i.e. if the ego is good and worthy?
Dadashri: It is difficult to maintain a saatvik ego. It is
very difficult to define such an ego. Saatvik ego, worthy ego is
that which maintains, ‘I do not know anything’.
Questioner: It is that which happens spontaneously and
naturally.
Dadashri: No, it is simply the ego of ‘I do not know
anything’. Therefore everyone is searching in vain. The whole
world is searching in vain. It is not possible to find even a single
word of truth. This truth is not such that it can be discovered.
The truth people have found is temporary truth; it is truth that
will perish.