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FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => the end of Kali Yuga. Sri Charana told John, ‘Yahova4’ means ‘I am’. That is the form of Parabrahman. All the consciousness reflecting in the universe is the consciousness of Jesus Christ who is popular as the son of |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => God. The consciousness purified is the same as sacred flowing grace which gives peace and happiness. All those three forms are Mine. As a result of your pure love you could get My darshan, which is very difficult to |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => get otherwise. Similarly, the Yavana dharma also is an inherent part of the essence of Datta5. A mahatma by the name of Maha Mathi6 was a devotee of formless Makkheswar7. He used to call God as Allah. He saw all |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => the seven heavens. He wanted to see Allah, but he saw only his reflec1 People of Indian origin but outside the Vedic system; they are described as bent on replacing the Vedic system of India with their own belief system 2 Here: Līlas 3 The eternal Law |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => 4 Yahweh. Editor’s Note: According to the Wisdom Teachings, Yahova is the malefemale god representing the absolute God, Parabrahman. Out of this, the pure consciousness or Christ consciousness comes forth. Therefore, Jesus Christ is |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => known as the Son of God. 5 Here: Datta tatwam 6 Muhammad (570 – 632 CE) 7 The Lord of Mecca 4. Vision of Vāsavāmbika in Kuruvapuram 73 tion. The Yavana sanyasi1 you saw was a Brahmin who was born in the |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => lineage of Bharadwaja. He lost his parents during his childhood. He was brought up by a Muslim fakir and learnt Muslim dharmas. He learnt Hindu dharmas by staying with a Hindu mahatma. He learnt kriya yoga from a |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => great yogi in Varanasi2. He then met a Datta avadhūta3 and asked for silver coins. As his tin would not get filled up, the avadhūta put two khajur4 fruits in it. Then he was satisfied. With that, the chaitanyam of Datta |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => flowed into him. Later, he came to Dhīsila Nagaram5. It was a small village in a forest area. When he got to the thick forest, Srīpāda Srīvallabha sat on a stone and meditated. If anyone does meditation sitting on that |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => stone, he would get wonderful results. Srīpāda Srīvallabha did tapas for twelve years in the underground house you saw under the neem tree. During those twelve years, He got the power of tapas equivalent to that |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => of doing tapas for 12,000 years. Srīvallabha’s body got transformed into a |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => 12,000 years old one. The whole cave was occupied by his hair6. His eyebrows also became thick. To see his eyes, one would have to lift the eyebrows with difficulty. Srī Charana gave that fruit of tapas to that young |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => sanyasi. When that young monk was about four years old, Srī Charana started tapas in that cave in his hidden form. When that sanyasi became |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => sixteen years old, He completed twelve years of tapas. My dear, these incidents which I am telling you are going to happen in the coming centuries. They are not the present incidents. Srīpāda will manifest with the |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => name of Narasimha Saraswati and will be there for eighty years with that name and form. He will later be in deep meditation7 incognito in Kadali Vanam for three hundred years. He will later take the name of Swamī |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => Samartha in Prajnapura8, and will later merge in the Mallikarjuna lingam in Srisailam. But the Yavana9 sanyasi whom you saw will also be in an old 1 Shirdi Sai Baba ( - 1918 CE) 2 Shyama Charan Lahiri (Lahiri Mahasaya, 1828 - 1895); a disciple of Mahāvatar |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => Babaji and Guru of Sri Yukteswar, the Guru of Yogananda 3 Person liberated from karmic bondages, beyond ego-consciousness and duality 4 Dates 5 Today: Shirdi 6 Here: Jatajutam 7 Here: Taponishta 8 City of Akkalkot in Maharashtra 9 Here: Muslim |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => 74 Sripada Srivallabha Charitamrutam aged form. He (Srīpāda) will put His chaitanyam in the sanyasi and make him equal to Him. “My dear Shankar, Srīpāda Vallabha did intense penance for twelve |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => years in the middle of those four nanda dīpams1. He divided the whole universe into sixteen parts and illustrated the four parts of Brahman as follows. Symbolically, for the four parts of Brahman, He lighted those |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => four nanda dīpams with His yogic fire2, and he remained in penance. The sides east, west, south and north are the kalās3 of the first part. People who worship them will get divine glow. The kalās in the second part are |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => earth, space, sky and ocean. Those who worship them will become endless4 and conquer the worlds. The kalās in the third part of Brahman are |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => fire, sun, moon and electricity. Those who worship them will become lustrous and conquer worlds. The kalās in the fourth part are life, eye, ear and mind. Those who worship them will become established in them. |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => Moreover, one gets knowledge5 if the north side is conquered. If the south is conquered, he will not have problems from bhūta6, preta7 and pisachams8. If the east is conquered, one gets wealth, and if the west is |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => conquered, the king becomes favourable. If one conquers all the four sides, he will get digvijayam9. Srīpāda Vallabha has the sides as His clothes. He has spread to the endlessness of all the sides. So, He is called |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => Digambara10. Srī Datta Digambara is the same as Srīpāda Srīvallabha Digambara. From the gross, subtle and causal bodies of Srī Charana, thousands of rays and kalās will be emanating. Some rays become as |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => 1 Perpetual lights as earthenware lamps filled with oil and a cotton wick 2 Here: Yogagni 3 Divine manifestations with time 4 Here: Ananta 5 Here: Jnana 6 The spirit of a man who died a violent death either by accident, suicide, or |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => capital punishment, and has not had a proper funeral ceremony |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => 7 The spirit of a dead person before his funeral rites are performed; more commonly: the spirit of a deformed or a crippled person or of a child that dies prematurely, due to the omission of ceremonies during the formation of the embryo. A preta is not necessarily wicked or malicious towards people. |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => 8 A demon created by a man’s vices; the ghost of a liar, drunkard, adulterer, criminal, or of one who has died insane 9 Absolute victory 10 Wearing no clothes 4. Vision of Vāsavāmbika in Kuruvapuram 75 |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => amsa1 avatars. After completing the tasks given to them, they will be merging into the original consciousness2 of Srīpāda Srīvallabha. He would |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => do creation, protection, annihilation, retrogression and graceful acts simultaneously. The vibrations seen in the creation of worlds are called |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => srishti tatwam3. Their preservation and protection is called sthithi tatwam. Their annihilation is called laya tatwam4. The returning of those vibrations into their origin is called tirodhana5. The vibrations related to |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => compassion and pity on the jīvas6 are called anugraham7. “Men become weaklings with the passage of yugas8. Therefore, the |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => Almighty descends to lower states based on the prayers of sages. The incarnation of the Lord in a human body is an indication of His complete grace. This descent of the Lord to lower levels enables humans to obtain |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => excellent results with little effort. Therefore, human beings in Kali Yuga are fortunate. By mere remembrance, the grace of Lord Datta would be available. There are many opportunities for the downfall of man in Kali |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => Yuga, but the number of opportunities for obtaining the grace of Srīpāda is twofold. This is a sacrosanct truth. Remembrance, adoration and other activities establish association with Lord Srīpāda. By these, all the sinful |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => acts, impure sensual influences, and behavioural patterns of the devotees enter into the consciousness of Lord Srīpāda and auspicious vibrations enter into His devotees. |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => “Srī Charana9 destroys those heaps of sins and black auras which entered into His consciousness by taking a single dip in a holy river or He |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => will burn them into ashes in the blazing fire of His yoga. He will personally do penance and dedicate the fruits of that penance to His devotees. Thus, He protects the devotees without violating the principle of karma. |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => If necessary, He commands the inert karmic nature and grants liberation for those who take refuge in His auspicious feet. He destroys karma for 1 Partial manifestations, a part of God that has descended and taken to form 2 Here: root chaitanyam |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => 3 The wisdom of creation 4 The wisdom of dissolution after creation and preservation 5 Retrogression, reabsorption to the primary source 6 The individual self or the soul 7 Grace, graceful acts 8 Aeons 9 Someone with auspicious feet; name for Srīpāda |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => 76 Sripada Srivallabha Charitamrutam the welfare of His devotees every second, in a very ferocious form. Therefore, those who surrender to His feet1 get freedom from the shackles of karma, even without being aware of it.” |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => When Palaniswami explained facts in the above manner, I was bold to ask him a question regarding a doubt that had cropped up in my mind. “Swamī, I heard that when Saturn afflicts for seven and a half years, even |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => Shankara2 cannot escape from the trouble. Pray tell me how Srīguru Sārvabhūma3 wards off afflictions from planets.” “My dear Shankarā, the planets in the zodiac do not have friendship or |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => enmity towards living beings. When a person is born, the planetary positions form according to his past karma4. He derives good and evil effects according to the movement of the planets. When the subtle rays from the |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => planets cause ill effects and mantra, tantra, yantra remedies cannot abate them, one has to resort to japa, tapa, and homa practices. When they also cannot alleviate the suffering, one has to take refuge in the |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => pādukas of Srīguru. Srīpāda is omnipotent. Good and evil forces also exist. The vibrations of those good and evil forces cause good and bad developments respectively. Each planet has a dominance on a particular part of |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => the human anatomy. When planetary afflictions take place, the relevant part of the human body ruled by the adverse planet becomes sick. Undesirable results follow when the subtle vibrations flowing from the |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => universal consciousness are received. Variations take place in the attraction and repulsion caused by the vibrations. A person who is hitherto in good company suddenly will be subjected to ill effects like bad company, |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => friendship with low class people, unreasonable quarrels, loss of relatives, disputes with family members, and reduction in the power of personal attraction. The universal forces create vibrations continuously. They work |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => steadily in a state of sthiti5 for some time in the concerned persons. After some time, they leave those persons and reach the bodies of persons who are destined to come under their influence. They begin to give results |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => again according to the rotation of the wheel of time. People who are dev1 Here: Pādukas; designates sandals as well as foot-prints of divine beings 2 Shiva 3 The Emperor 4 The accumulated good and bad karma (papa and punya) from previous births |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => 5 Rest, latency 4. Vision of Vāsavāmbika in Kuruvapuram 77 otees of God and observe spiritual practices like japa and tapa can get |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => some respite to some extent from the planet’s rigour. Sages conduct various kinds of sacrifices for the universal welfare. They dedicate their spiritual power derived through tapas for the wellbeing of humanity. As a |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => result of this practice, harmful influences arising in the universe revert back to their origin instead of harassing men. It means that they return to the centre of their origin. This can be termed as tirodhana1. Granting of |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => abundant auspicious results even for small amount of good deeds is called grace2. My son, I explained to you the concepts of srushti3, sthiti, laya, tirodhana and anugraha according to the doctrine of kriya yoga. |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => “In future, the powers of Srīpāda Srīvallabha will flow in a large measure in the Muslim fakir you saw in your meditation. You saw four nanda |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => lamps in the underground cellar beneath the neem tree. This is an extraordinary matter. Srīpāda Srīvallabha granted you this experience with a great intention in mind. He only knows the inner purpose of it. His divine acts |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => are indeed superb. They have a very deep purpose. Moreover, they may be divine secrets not to be divulged to others. I can only explain to you to the extent He permitted me. The entire Creation works under the guidance of |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => Srīpāda Srīvallabha. He is the authority for Himself. The glorious, yogic powers of the Master of this universe are immeasurable and cannot be comprehended in terms of measurements, limits and quantities.” |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => My mind immensely rejoiced at the explanation of Srī Palaniswami. From the time I started from the Udipi area4 till I reached Kuruvapuram, many wonderful and strange things were taking place. I wanted to write a |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => book about them and obtain the permission of the Srīguru Sārvabhūma5. I wanted to request Srīpāda in this regard after getting His dārshan. Srī Palaniswami grasped the feelings in my mind easily and said, “I |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => have understood the ideas in your mind. You want to write His history for the benefit of devotees of the future. Srīpāda Srīvallabha will surely bless your effort.” Then Srī Palaniswami asked Mādhavā to speak about his meditation experiences. |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => 1 Disappearance or retreat 2 Here: Anugraha 3 Creation 4 Here: Kshetra 5 The Emperor 78 Sripada Srivallabha Charitamrutam Mādhavā said, “Mahatma, I saw in my meditation1 a Brahmin sanyasi |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => wearing a loincloth2. He used to worship Agni and the Sun. He was talking to a Veda pandit: ‘I want to send this coconut you gave me to the Muslim fakir. That Muslim fakir is in a higher state than me. He is like an elder |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => brother to me. He knows past, present and future3. I will take the treatise written on palm leaves named Srīpāda Srīvallabha Charitāmrutam present with you. I will give it to the Muslim fakir, whom I rever as my elder |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => brother. I will take his blessings. Are the things narrated in this true or fictitious? I will decide on how much truth is in there and how much fiction is in there. After deciding about it, I will write a treatise analyzing them.’ |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => “Then the Veda pandit said, ‘Sir, you will not be able to take the coconut I gave you to that Muslim fakir. Your effort will definitely be a waste. The Charitāmrutam had already been written. It happened by the will of |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => Srīvallabha. This treatise named Srīpāda Srīvallabha Charitāmrutam is held in high esteem as a sacred book by all gods, rishis and great people. This treatise was written on the command of Srīpāda. No one has the |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => freedom to change even one letter in this. This is with us for many generations. Srīpāda’s command is that the ruined copy of this must be immersed in the Ganges River. We have been protecting it from many generations. Without Srīpāda’s command we do not reveal, even to a great |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => person, the fact that a treatise like this exists. You seem to wish changing certain parts in this Charitāmrutam. We belong to the family who feel the touch of Srīpāda’s feet when we put our hands on this treatise. If you are |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => greater than Srīpāda, your order is binding on us. You are in the attire of a sanyasi. We are householders. We cannot dare to oppose you. If you can take this coconut to Dhīsila Nagaram, I will give this palmyra leaf copy to |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => you, discard my holy thread4 and declare myself as an untouchable5. You say that the Muslim fakir knew about the nanda dīpams. You also say that it is Dhīsila Nagaram only and that in due course, it acquires the name |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => Shiladī Nagaram. An avadhūta in our family told me recently that he found a partial manifestation of Srī Dattatreya in Aurangabad6 and that 1 Here: Dhyana 2 Here: Kaupinam 3 Here: Trikāla vedi 4 Here: Yajnopaveetam, the holy thread worn by Brahmins |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => 5 Here: a Chandāla 6 City in Northern India 4. Vision of Vāsavāmbika in Kuruvapuram 79 he took him to Dhīsila Nagaram. Even if you go to Pīthikapuram, you cannot install Srīpāda’s pādukas there. Pīthikapuram is an anthill of people |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => like quarrelling poisonous snakes. They spend time in vain arguments and counter-arguments and unnecessary disputes but have no spiritual aspirations. If you install Srīpāda’s pādukas in the house of our ancestors, it will |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => be a happy thing for us. But you should have to get the grace of Srīpāda completely. Without the will of Srīpāda, not even one leaf on a tree will move. Our family does not need the name and fame, titles or honours |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => given by ordinary people. We believe that Srīpāda will be moving as a small boy incognito in our house.’ Swamī, this is what I saw in meditation1.” Palaniswami said, “My dear children, that Veda pandit belongs to the |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => descendents of Srīpāda’s maternal uncle. In their families, they feel Srīpāda as an incognito small boy. If anyone belonging to any caste, any race, any religion, any country, in any age2 feels Srīpāda as a divine child |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => and has vatsalya bhakti3, Srīvallabha will be living in their house as a boy incognito. This was revealed by Srīpāda Himself in Pīthikapuram. Sri Charana was born in His maternal grandfather’s house in Pīthikapuram. |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => The people in that family migrated to other villages some years after Srīvallabha left Pīthikapuram. His family members also similarly migrated to other places. Srīpāda transferred His power completely into the Muslim |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => fakir of Dhīsila Nagaram4 in later years. In Bengal, a great person by the name of Gadadhar5 was born. He would worship Kālikāmba6. When he prayed for liberation, Jagad Janani7 did not agree. She asked him to take |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => birth again for the sake of his followers and to grace them considering their merits and sins. He did not agree to take birth again. Then Kālikāmba8 asked the Muslim fakir of Dhīsila Nagaram to come to her with his |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => subtle body. That Muslim fakir remained dead for three days. He told his 1 Here: Dhyana 2 Here: Yuga 3 A form of devotion perceiving God as a small child, like in the worship of the child Jesus 4 Today: Shirdi |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => 5 Given name at birth of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (1836 – 1886) 6 Mother Kali 7 The Divine Mother 8 Mother Kali (a form of the Divine Mother) 80 Sripada Srivallabha Charitamrutam devotees, ‘I will go to Allah and come back within three days.’ Kālikāmba |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => is none other than Vasavī Kanyaka Parameswari present in Brihat Sila Nagaram. This Muslim fakir was given the task of looking into the sins and merits of the followers of Gadadhar. Jagad Janani deposited part of |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => Herself in him. Srīvallabha also deposited part of Himself in him. After three days when that Muslim fakir came back into his gross body, he became the most powerful one. He served the Masjid, in which he lived, as |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => the mother. It was because of the amsa1 of the Divine Mother entering into him. So, he showed motherly affection towards his devotees. “My dear, all these things I am narrating will be happening in the coming centuries. |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => “The Veda pandit seen in meditation2 had a Vaishya as his dear friend. That Vaishya prayed to the avadhūta who was wearing a loincloth3, ‘Swamī, please accept our hospitality; we are Ārya Vaishyas. Jagad Janani Vasavī |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => Kanyakambika was born in our caste. You please take the food materials and cook yourself.’ The Veda pandit also prayed for the yati4 to accept the great Vaishya’s invitation. But the yati, who was a Brahmin formalist, told |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => him curtly that he would not accept the offered food materials as alms5. This incident angered Srīvallabha and Srī Vasavī Mata as well. They wanted to punish avadhūta in order to remove the pride of his Brahmin birth. The |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => avadhūta reached Pīthikapuram. The Brahmin community of Pīthikapuram, who gave importance to customs and practice of external worship, grandly welcomed that avadhūta. Srīpāda Srīvallabha’s maternal grandfather’s |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => house went into the hands of outsiders. After consulting the house owner, it was decided to install the Srī Pādukas in the place where Srīpāda was born in that house. Silver pādukas were installed in accordance with the |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => scriptures6. During the midnight hours, a thief entered that house. The house owner was also awake. The thief entered the room where the pādukas were installed. The house owner told the thief, ‘I have no belief |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => at all that Srīpāda Srīvallabha was a great avatar7. I do not have any belief 1 Partial-manifestations, a part of God that has descended and taken to form 2 Here: Dhyana 3 Here: Kaupinam 4 Monk 5 Here: Bhiksha 6 Here: Shastras 7 Here: Avatar Purusha |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => 4. Vision of Vāsavāmbika in Kuruvapuram 81 in this avadhūta. You can take away these silver pādukas and give me half of the amount you get when you sell them.’ The thief said, ‘Alright’. |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => “On the next day, the pādukas were not seen. The avadhūta felt sorrow. Silver pādukas were installed a second time. Worship was done grandly. During the midnight hours, the avadhūta stayed in the same |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => room near the pādukas. He was chanting sacred verses1 on Datta. As he was looking, the pādukas rose into the air, hit hard on the head of the avadhūta and disappeared. The voice of Srī Charana was heard, ‘I can |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => make My body disappear. Can I not make these pādukas disappear? If the coconut had reached Dhīsila Nagaram, My maternal uncle would have to fulfil his hard oath. That is not agreeable to Me. The coconut you sent |
FROM Shripad Shri Vallabh Charitramrutam => was eaten away on the way. So, there is no way you can be given the treatise ‘Srīpāda Srīvallabha Charitāmrutam’. Who do you think I am? I |