A few minutes after 3:00 P.M., Godavri Mai and all gathered in the pandal, where Baba discoursed on the "Split Ego or Split I ":
I have dictated points about the present discourse which will be read out in English, and its translations in Hindi and Marathi. We have heard about split personality. We hear it is quite common. One day a person may be happy and in a buoyant mood, and the next day or next moment, he may feel dejected and depressed. One day he does good actions and the next he may do actions which are undesirable. Compared to split personality, split ego or split I is something new. Never before has such a thing been explained. It is quite original.
Most of you must have heard about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — a combination of good and evil propensities in one man. This is a good example of a split personality.
Just as there is a thing like split personality, there is also a thing like split ego. All do not have a split personality, but all do have a split I . The Real I of all is always one indivisible whole. Simultaneously, there is also the false I in every individual which gives rise to his separative existence. We find that the very same one Real I plays the part of infinite false I s in different ways, creating as many separate beings and things born out of the one Real and Eternal Existence.
In reality, there is only one Real I. This Real I is so uncompromisingly one and indivisible that it knows not any separate existence. All of you present here are the part and parcel of that one whole inseparable I. Then, how is it that we see forms here? From where has this division come? If this separation were not there, then no one would have found that there is only one indivisible Real I. The I is real; but the split ego — that is, the separative I — is unreal, and yet we see all this division. This one Real I is apparently split into innumerable false I s. What can we expect from this false "I?" The false I, being false, represents everything false. The Real I in me sees the One without a second, and the Real I in you has apparently split into the false I which sees divisions everywhere.