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Aptavani-9
Dadashri: Why? Is it not possible? It is like this,
gurutam means to climb higher. When you have to climb a
mountain, does it take more effort to climb up or down?
Questioner: To climb up.
Dadashri: So laghutam means to come down; that can
be done very effortlessly, can’t it? ‘We’ did it very easily. So
always, have an inner intent of laghutam. The more the inner
intent (bhaav) of laghutam you have the greater will be your
progress towards gurutam - the Self. And you attain a state of
gurutam only when you become laghutam in the relative life
God is very pleased with the one without
mamata
That is why in the worldly interactions (vyavahar) I am
laghutam and in nischaya – in the realm of the Self - I am
actually gurutam. I do not have any superiors. Even God, the
fully enlightened One, is very pleased with me. Then what else
remains for me?
People tell me, ‘You call yourself ‘Dada Bhagwan’?’ I tell
them, ‘No Why would I do that? When God, the fully
enlightened One within, is pleased with me, then why would I
have a need to be called Bhagwan (God)? The ‘ruler’ of the
fourteen worlds has become pleased with me and your ‘ruler’
within you too, will be pleased with you if you do what I tell you.
It is better to have the Lord within be pleased with you. What
will anyone gain from being a God? Let him be the God,
whoever he is. The ruler of the fourteen worlds has become
pleased with me and I am showing you the way in which you too
can attain the same.
There is great danger in being a God and I would invite