Aptavani-9
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So is it better to be a God or to have God become very
pleased with you? Which state is better?
Questioner: The state where God becomes very pleased
with us.
Dadashri: Now who would give up a higher state for a
lower one? And I assure you that God is very pleased with me.
I also tell him, ‘Why don’t you leave?’ and he tells me, ‘Where
can I go? I will tell you if there is any place.’ I told him, ‘If you
manifest within someone else, I do not have any problems with
that. You have stayed here for many days.’ But surely there has
to be a suitable place where He can go, right? That location has
to be without mamata – without ‘my-ness’; without ego, only
then can God manifest there. Such a ‘room’ is needed. Does he
not need a good place?
God can become pleased with anyone. If a person has a
little ego there is no problem, however God will inevitably
become pleased with the one in whom all mamata (‘my-ness’)
is gone. He will be very pleased with the one whose mamata
is completely gone.
Junior of the junior
I am the only junior in this world. A person can become
a senior of the entire universe if he becomes a junior of juniors.
I am the only remaining junior. Do you want to make me a
senior? If you do, you will become the junior of a junior.
Questioner: But as compared to you, we are like little
children!
Dadashri: That is a different matter altogether and what
I am talking about is different. People think I am a guru, but I
am not a guru; I am laghutam. Laghutam means junior.
Everyone and everything around me are my seniors. The trees,
the leaves, they are all senior to me. So would you like to be
a senior or a junior from now on?