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Dadashri: When you say animals, there are human beings who have become like the animals too.
Questioner: How can I recognize them?
Dadashri: You can recognize them. If he raises his horns (ego), will you not understand that he is a bull? Therefore, you should move aside. I-Dadashri would recognize one even before he comes. I can smell them. Many are like rocks and many are like light poles.
Questioner: Some of us can tell by looking at their faces, can we not?
Dadashri: Yes, that is true, but how accurate a 'thermometer' (within) should the one who knows this in this manner keep in order to do so?
Questioner: It has to be free of prejudice.
Dadashri: A man without prejudice is blessed for sure. If you fought with me yesterday and meet me again today, I will put aside yesterday's incident. If I keep prejudices based on my previous experiences, it would be a mistake on my part. Even if you do the same thing with me again today, there is no problem. The world suffers because of purvagraha (insistence due to prior impressions and opinions; prejudices), and it is because of them that new mistakes are made. You do not believe people to be what they are, and what they are not, you believe they are!
When you call someone a 'donkey' or an 'ass', you are calling God an 'ass' too. Therefore, think before you call anyone any names. Conflicts must not exist. You must settle and resolve them. It is a waste of time and energy to sit around without settling the conflict.
Any Title Is the Ego
A scholar (pandit) once asks me, 'What is
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sthitapragnya?' Now, I am not a scholar, I am a Gnani. His ego had been inflated without any substance or reason. I explained to him that he will attain the state of sthitapragnya when his ego goes away, so he should get rid of this ego. The word 'pandit' is merely an adjective, a title; many people have that. There are many pandits around. One should become adjective-free, title-free, for just one day. I am without any title (visheshan, adjectiveless) and that is why people call me a Gnani. Otherwise, I am not even a Gnani. I am the title-free (nirvishesh purush, one free from all worldly titles, the base of which is ego).
Can Karmas Be Destroyed by Critical Thinking?
Questioner: It is said that the entire mohaniya karmas (the karmas that delude) can be destroyed by enquiry-critical thinking.
Dadashri: Yes, but that thinking has to be in front of a Gnani Purush; not on your own.
There are two kinds of thoughts: one is thoughts out of one's own swachhand (guided by the intellect and the ego) and the other is thoughts that are in the interaction with the Gnani Purush. Tell the Gnani Purush, time and again, what kind of thoughts come to you; then when He tells you, 'this is correct', you can go forward. Otherwise if the thoughts are guided by your intellect and ego (swachhand), there is no telling where they will take you.
Everything can be removed through critical thinking. Everything of mine went away through this process. There is nothing in this world, not a single subatomic particle (parmanu) that I have not thought about!
Discharging of Karmas - with the Method of the Gnanis
Questioner: The Gnani remains as the Knower-Seer of
