Aptavani-9 483
Dadashri: That is the protection of the prakruti. Otherwise, one would turn back just as fast; with the same speed, with the same tone and with the same mood. With the same mood that was there before. This is the talk of the final state!
The Test of‘ I-ness’
Say you are going somewhere with someone by car, he tells you to get in the car and you do. A little later, he tells you to get out of the car because someone else is coming instead, what would you do? Would you just sit there? Would you tell him,‘ I am not getting off?’
Questioner: I would get out. Dadashri: Immediately? Questioner: Immediately! I would get off.
Dadashri: Would you not say,‘ No I will not get out?’ Then as you walk away, he calls you back. You would go back would you not? And you would do so without a change of expression on your face, right?
So what have I said? If you can do this nine times over without any effect at all within you, then I will tell you that you have become‘ Dada’. If he does this to you nine times and you get on and off nine times, and during each of those nine times, You do not see the other person as the doer, and you see vyavasthit as verily the‘ doer’, then You are free from‘ I-ness’. And if when you are invited back, there is nothing in the mind, the face remains smiling as if nothing has happened, and this is the case while getting off also, then you are free from‘ I-ness’. Then see the beauty of it all! What is this state called? It shows that this‘ one’ is not protecting the prakruti and therefore the potapanu is gone.
Protecting your prakruti is‘ I-ness’. But here the very prakruti one wants to be liberated from is the one he is protecting.