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happens because an account is still pending; otherwise, no one can ever take anything away from anyone. No one has such energy or power (shakti), and if they do take anything away, then realize that there is a pending account that is being settled. This world is very just. Not even a snake will touch you. This whole compound can be full of snakes, and yet none of them can touch you. That is how just and wonderful this world is. So what happens when a person does not understand these facts and speaks in his own language or has his own understanding? Does One Take Precautions or Are They Just
Happening? Questioner: Is it considered confusion (vikalp) in thought processes if we keep thinking, "If it rains, then we will do it this way'? Surely we should naturally think things through in this manner! Having thought everything through, whatever happens afterwards is correct. But is thinking in this way considered a vikalp?
Dadashri: For the one who has not taken Gnan, it is all a vikalp ("I am Chandulal'). The one who has taken Gnan has an understanding and, therefore, no vikalp remains for him. As a pure Soul (Shuddhatma), 'You' do not have to think at all. Whatever thought arises has to be known.
Questioner: Does that mean that there is no need to take any precaution?
Dadashri: How can there be anything as precautions? Precautions also occur automatically. So now where is the
the one who is taking precautions? Who are you to take precautions when you stumble over and fall in complete daylight? Can man really take precautions? He does not have even the independent energy or power (shakti) to relieve his bowels!
The whole world takes 'precautions' and yet do people not have accidents? Where 'precautions,' or intellectual
interferences, do not exist, there are no accidents'! Precaution is a kind of intellectual interference and restlessness. There is excessive restlessness. There is no need for it at all. The world runs naturally and spontaneously (sahaj) on its own.
Questioner: But taking precaution does not happen with the intent of doer-ship; it happens automatically.
Dadashri: That will happen automatically, for sure.
Questioner: There is no doer (karta), but if a thought arises naturally, then should one not use the intellectual discrimination (vivek buddhi) and do it?
Dadashri: No, everything happens automatically. 'You have to keep 'seeing what happens. Now, You tell me, who are you in the middle of all this? Are You Shuddhatma' or are you *Chandulal'?
Questioner: You are asking who I am in the middle of all that? Is the mind (mun) not in the middle?
Dadashri: When have I ever disregarded the mind? Thoughts will naturally continue to arise in the mind. And sometimes thoughts may not even arise.
It is like this: even in the last life before liberation, the mind worked every second. The only difference is that now the mind no longer has any tubers (granthi). It simply unfolds according to the unfolding karma (udaya).
You are Shuddhatma after Gnan and from the worldly view (vyavahar) you are 'Chandulal. Now, in the worldly life interactions, 'I am Chandulal,' 'I am his uncle,' 'I am her nephew.' is called vikalp, but in reality, after Gnan (nischay) it is not vikalp. It is discharge. When you truly believe, I truly am Chandulal,' then it is vikalp. After Gnan, the belief of, 'I am Shuddhatma,' puts you in a state free from vikalp (nirvikalp).
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