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gives up the last remnants of the ego (potapanu) he becomes
natural. When one attains naturalness (sahaj state) he can
continuously remain in the awareness as the Self (atma
upayog).
Drama begins when ‘I-ness’ decreases
Potapanu (‘I-ness’) is a very big word. There is not even
a trace of ‘I-ness’ in ‘us’. Yet ‘we’ make Hiraba sit next to ‘us’.
People ask ‘us’, ‘Who is this?’ and ‘we’ would tell them, ‘This
is my wife.’ ‘We’ will say all that. ‘We’ will even tell Hiraba, ‘I
do not like to be without you.’ How good she must feel when
‘we’ tell her that!
But with ‘us’, it is all ‘dramatic’ (like acting in a play).
One man tells me, ‘Can you bless my land by gracing it with
your footsteps?’ I told him, ‘Why should I have any problems?’
‘We’ would also ask him about his land, such as when he made
the deal, how much he paid for it, etc. Some people may even
think that Dada has become a land broker!
If a person gets a benign white spot on his body but he
keeps showing it to me, I would gently rub my hand over it just
to satisfy him.
Questioner: That too is a drama, is it not?
Dadashri: It is all a drama. The whole day is a drama for
‘us’. All my actions of the entire day are a drama. If you take
‘us’ to your home for darshan, that too is as a drama. If it were
not a drama, then the ‘I-ness’ (potapanu) would be there.
Because there is no ‘I-ness’; the drama is exact. Otherwise, it
would be like, ‘I will have to go there for a visit. I will have to
go there to give darshan’, but there is no such thing within.
Therefore, all this is nothing but a drama. The whole
daylong I am doing a ‘drama’. When I sit in the satsang and
answer questions, that too is a drama. But the drama starts only
when the ‘I-ness’ (potapanu), decreases and not otherwise.