WHO AM I ?
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the answer to the question, “Who am I?” Will you not need to
inquire about who you really are?
(3) EXPERIMENT TO SEPARATE ‘MY’ AND ‘I’
REALIZATION OF THE TRUE SELF RESULTS IN
SEPARATION FROM ‘MY’
Questioner : Dada what technique or method is there
by which I can come to know my Real Self?
Dadashri : ‘I’ is the elemental form (vastu svaroop)
and ‘My’ is a circumstantial form (sanyogi svaroop). The
circumstantial form and the elemental form are always separate.
‘I’ is the natural elemental form.
‘I’ is God and ‘My’ is maya (illusion). Everything that
falls under ‘My’ is an illusion. ‘My’ is all maya. ‘My’ is filled
with all varieties of maya. The moment you say ‘My’, you are
under the influence of maya. Whenever you say ‘My’, you become
attached to whatever you refer to as ‘My’. ‘I’ therefore, attaches
to ‘My’. ‘My’ cannot attach to ‘I’. ‘My’ is relative to ‘I’.
‘I’ is the only independent form. Everything that falls under
‘My’ is alien and not related to the Self. The body (pudgal-
cosmic flux of input (puran) and output (galan) also falls under
‘My’. In the relative world you have to say, “My,” or “This is
mine.” But from within, your internal understanding should be,
“It is not really mine.” When a person achieves this
understanding, nothing bothers him. There is nothing wrong in
speaking this way but from within one should decide what really
belongs to him. If a policeman makes an inquiry at your house
and asks whose house it is, you will have to say, “It is my
house,” but from within you should have an understanding that
it is not really yours. It is the inner understanding that makes the
difference. The real ‘I’ has no possessions.
‘My’ is the ‘relative department’ and it is a temporary