Aptavani-9 377
becoming a disciple of young children, the foolish and all the rest of the people.
Liberation with the laghutam ego
Questioner: How do you define laghutam? Is bringing our ego to a zero level considered being laghutam?
Dadashri: No. The ego remains the same but it is also an ego to say‘ I am smaller than everyone.’ Laghu means‘ I am small’, laghutar means‘ I am even smaller than small’ and laghutam means‘ everyone is bigger than me.’ That too is a kind of an ego( ahamkar).
Now the world is based on the ego of gurutam, which is the intent to be bigger than everyone; it is the belief of‘ I am greater than everyone’; this verily is the cause of the worldly life( sansar), whereas with a laghutam ego, one goes towards attaining liberation( moksha). Laghutam ego means to conduct interactions of worldly life with the intent,‘ I am smaller than everyone.’ That will take him towards liberation. By believing,‘ I am greater than everyone’, one enters into a‘ race course’( competition) and on to the wrong path through unawareness. With laghutam ego one gradually becomes smaller and smaller until he becomes completely laghutam; therefore one becomes Parmatma, the absolute Self.
There is no racecourse in laghutam
Up until now, all efforts have been towards becoming gurutam, have they not?‘ I want to be greater than him; I want to be greater than him.’ See, the competition has begun, has it not? Who wins the prize? The prize goes only to the horse that comes first. What about the rest? There is no prize for them even after running so hard.
Questioner: Dada is there a racecourse in a laghutam state?