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others tell him he begins to have deep faith (shraddha) that "truly I am Chandubhai' and others around him accept it too. Then this belief does not fracture in anyway at all. However, no changes occur in the Self at all. The Self remains absolutely pure; just like the pure gold is one hundred percent gold. Gold never becomes impure even when it is mixed with copper, at the elemental level it retains its purity.
Vision: Right and Wrong Dadashri: This is the wrong vision (drashti); it is a deluded vision (mithya drashti) and that is why all the pain and suffering (dukh) have arisen. And samkit means the right vision; enlightened vision. Has your vision ever become enlightened?
Questioner: No.
Dadashri: You have roamed the entire cycle of the worldly life and yet your vision has not become enlightened, even for a fraction of a second. What is your name?
Questioner: 'Chandubhai.' Dadashri: Is it a fact that you are Chandubhai'?
Questioner: It appears to be an illusion; it feels like an egoistic state.
Dadashri: Then who are you? Questioner: I do not know. Dadashri: So why have you not known this until now?
Questioner: I have always been perplexed about, 'Who am I?' but I have no answer to it.
Dadashri: 'I am Chandubhai... I am this lady's husband... I am his father...I am his uncle, etc.,' are all wrong beliefs. The Gnani Purush fractures all these wrong beliefs and replaces them with the right belief. Then the right vision, the
enlightened vision (samkit drashti), is attained.
Knowledge: Right and Wrong Previously one was involved in understanding wrong knowledge and that caused him to come into karmic bondage. Now he is in the effort to learn the right knowledge; the enlightened knowledge. Since right knowledge is of the Self, he becomes free.
The other one is knowledge too and therefore one finds it interesting. But that knowledge is dependant on other factors (paravalambi); it has to take support of something else here, whereas enlightened knowledge (samyak gnan) gives the bliss of the Self; it is knowledge that is dependent on the Self (swavalambi) and it makes one independent.
Questioner: There is only one kind of gnan (knowledge), is there not? The Self itself is Gnan. So how can viparit gnan (deluded or wrong knowledge, and this Gnan be different?
Dadashri: Viparit means that one is involved in the knowledge, which is not necessary.
Questioner: But can it be considered knowledge (gnan)?
Dadashri: Of course it is called gnan, is it not? On what basis is it considered agnan (ignorance)? It is considered agnan because it is not beneficial (for liberation).
Questioner: So it is agnan, is it not? It cannot be called gnan, can it?
Dadashri: In the eyes of the world everything is gnan, is it not?
Any effort to know anything worldly is illusory knowledge (mithya gnan). Wrong knowledge and wrong conduct (charitra) arise by having the wrong faith (shraddha). This will give one good experience and it will also give bitter experience in life. It
