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the knowledge, gnan of how to do it and finally his conduct will automatically follow.
The fruit of gnan and darshan is conduct in action. Samyak means real, authentic and right. Samyk Gnan is right knowledge. Samyak darshan is right belief. The combination of these two gives rise to samyak charitra, right conduct (enlightened conduct). The one with enlightened conduct is God. Enlightened, real conduct hurts no one.
moksha'. Liberation is attained through Gnan kriya.
What is Gnan kriya? It means to know and remain as the Self. Darshan kriya' is to see and Gnan kriya is to know Seeing and knowing are verily the attributes of the Self. Except for the Self, no other elements have the attributes of knowing and seeing (Gnan-Darshan); they have all other kriyas.
Dadashri : Is the Self, separate from the body?
Questioner : It is separate.
Darshan, Gnan and charitra (conduct) are interdependent. The knowledge one acquires depends on the belief or darshan. The conduct then results naturally. The conduct does not require any effort.
Kriya, (effort, action is not an attribute of the Self. The Self has its own attributes, but effort or action is not one of them. One experiences what one imagines. There is no pleasure or pain. Yet these are experienced according to what one believes to be the case. Such pain and pleasure is imaginary from the perspective of the Self. The Self has infinite energies and is unaffected by all states of the relative self. Yet it is the presence of the Self that makes all things around us appear to be full of action.
The Lord says that every deed or action will be rewarded with its fruit. The action or deed, which renders no consequences or fruits, is the one that liberates. Absolute and utmost humility leads one to liberation. Everything else is worldly entanglement and there is no end to it - wherever you go. This entanglement will follow you to a cave in the Himalayas or will follow you if you decide to live a worldly life.
People advocate religious rites (kriya), but of what good are these rites in the absence of Gnan? Kriya is a maid of Gnan. The Lord has said for one to do Gnan kriya, "Gnan kriyabhyam
Dadashri : So how does your body function; with whose help does it function? It is through the help of vyavasthit, scientific circumstantial evidence that everything functions. Everything that you do is really done by vyavasthit shakti. The Self does not do anything; the Self is merely a knower and the observer of all that is going on.
The one who is the knower is not the doer and the one who is the doer is not the Knower. The doer cannot be the knower and the knower cannot be the doer. The engine does not know anything about its working. The electric bulb gives light without knowing it.
Did this ship bring you to the shore from the middle of the ocean or did you bring the ship ashore? It is the ship that brings you ashore but it does not know that. Thus the knower and the doer are two separate streams, but when you allow both to become one, by saying that I am the doer' and 'I am the knower', you ruin everything. Both are entirely separate.
The one who does, knows not; and the one who knows, does not, because evidences are needed in the process of doership, whereas no evidence is required in knowing. To do anything, we need the circumstances of evidence to come together, nothing can occur on its own accord.
