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Aptavani-4
before attaining the Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) and the experience after Gnan is different. It is a new kind of experience that continues to grow gradually along with the awareness. Absolute awareness is absolute experience. Knowledge Mediated Through the Sense
Organs: Awareness There are two kinds of knowledge (gnan): Indriya-gnan (knowledge attained through the medium of the senses) and atindriya-gnan (knowledge beyond the senses). Indriya-gnan is limited and atindriya is unlimited. Even in indriya-gnan, people do not have complete awareness in the worldly life. In indriya-gnan, a person that is fully aware, would be considered an elevated sant purush (saint).
Questioner: What is complete awareness of indriyagnan?
Dadashri: Five gnanendriya (Five senses; Sense organs of knowledge namely: hearing-ears, touch-skin, sight-eyes, taste-tongue, and smell-nose), five karmendriya (functional organs that facilitate action: the mouth, for eating and speech; the action of the hands and feet; digestive and excretory organs); mind (mun), intellect (buddhi), chit, and the ego (ahamkar), all fall in the category of indriya-gnan.
When a person has complete awareness in indriya-gnan, his ego will be such, that he will not have any dissension, because of a difference in opinion (matbhed) with anyone. Even if someone tries to create matbhed, he will somehow escape not creating it. If there is a possibility for conflict to occur, he will ward off the differences. With the awareness of indriya-gnan, one will not have even the slightest of conflict with anyone. He will become “everywhere adjustable”; he will not interfere in worldly interactions.
Even in indriya-gnan, there are two kinds of awareness:
| SR No. | 030034 |
| Book Title | Aptavani Shreni 04 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Dada Bhagwan |
| Publisher | Dada Bhagwan Aradhana Trust |
| Publication Year | 2013 |
| Total Pages | 480 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 1 MB |