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Aptavani-5
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Aptavani-5
'Outer' Intellect: 'Inner' Intellect
The "outer' intellect is mechanical and the 'inner' intellect helps you to become independent—that intellect is mechanical too.
Questioner: What do you mean by independent?
Dadashri: Independent means that there is nobody above you in this world. There should be no superior over you, not even God. How can you afford to have a superior? There is dependency as long as there is a superior. How can you afford dependency? You never know when your superior will scold you. Therefore, you should not have anyone over you. It is due to lack of understanding that you have one. I have come here to give you that understanding. I do not have any superior. I am telling you that you too do not have a superior. Understand this fact
Questioner: What can one attain through the mechanical intellect?
Dadashri: One can attain all external worldly things through it.
Questioner: If it is a mechanical intellect, then should everyone not receive the same amount of external things?
Dadashri: Everyone has a different amount of mechanical intellect; it is never the same in everyone. The intellect depends upon one's development'. Different people in different continents have different levels of development of the intellect. So each person has an intellect according to his or her own development.
Questioner: Where does 'mechanical' come into this?
Dadashri: What you believe yourself to be is all mechanical. You yourself are mechanical. Until you realize the Self, you are mechanical; it is dependency. Your body too is
mechanical and some day when one of the parts wears out; that will be the end. Mechanical means dependency. Actually, You, the Self, are separate from this mechanical thing; the relative self, the non-Self complex.
Don't you have to put food in your stomach every day? If it were not mechanical, then your work would be done if you ate just once; you would not have to eat again. But here there is an intake (puran) and an output (galan). Everything is mechanical. You are separate from this. You are the Knower of this mechanical process. This mechanical thing is an experiment' and you are the 'scientist'. You are the Knower of what is going on in this experiment'; what changes are going on in "Chandubhai'! But instead of that you claim, 'I am Chandubhai"; how can you afford such a tremendous mistake?
Questioner: How can the intellect be mechanical? Do animals have intellect, more or less?
Dadashri: The animals have limited antahkaran (the inner functioning component comprised of the mind, intellect, chir and ego) and in humans it is unlimited. Because of their limited antahkaran there is no further development. A cow will come running to you if you show her a feeding pot. She has at least that much understanding. Does she have any other understanding besides that? She will not come near you if you went outside with a stick in your hand. She knows when sleep is needed. She has sexual desire. She knows to eat when she is hungry. She is also aware of what to eat and what not to; something the humans lack! All animals sniff their food before they eat. Humans are the only serious violators of nature.
Questioner: How far will the mechanical intellect help or hurt a human being?
Dadashri: To the point of destruction! The mechanical intellect will destroy everything when it becomes above normal - excessive. This world is headed towards total destruction. The
