Progress through awakened awareness dissolves ‘I-ness’ (English Dadavani september-2011)

By Bhagwan, Dada

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Title:	Progress through awakened awareness dissolves ‘I-ness’ (English Dadavani september-2011)
Author:	Bhagwan, Dada
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Religion
Collections:	Authors Community, Religion
Historic Publication Date:	2011
Publisher:	Mahavideh Foundation

Member Page:	Dada Bhagwan
Citation APA MLA Chicago Bhagwan, B. D. (2011). Progress through awakened awareness dissolves ‘I-ness’ (English Dadavani september-2011). Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Why does a human being wander life after life in the worldly life (sansar)? It is due to egoism (ahamkar). When this ego dissolves then moksha (liberation) happens. Every embodied soul progresses by attaining experience at every level on the evolutionary path. This collection of experiences is called ‘I-ness’ (potapanu). After Atmagnan (realization of the Self), ego leaves, but potapanu remains. The ego is gone, the realm of authority (satta) left, but ‘he-potey’ does not let go of his seat. And it is not easy to let go of that seat. Revered Dadashri explains this statement by giving a simple example of ‘I’, ‘lawyer’ and ‘Mangaldas’. After attaining Gnan, ‘lawyer’ and ‘Mangaldas’ are gone but ‘I-potey’ has remained, and that itself is potapanu (‘I-ness’). This ‘I-ness’ has arisen from the attributes of prakruti (the non-Self complex). The ownership of prakruti has been fractured through faith (shraddha; conviction), but that potapanu is not going away yet.