Aptavani 06

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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you.' Do you need a candle when the sun is shining? Therefore, there is no need for the light of the intellect after you have the light of the Self. 'We (the Gnani and the fully enlightened Self) do not have intellect. 'We are without intellect that interferes and makes one emotional (abuddha).
tough or tender? Some people will simply go to the shop and ask the shop keeper to weigh some okra for them and they may get good okra.
Questioner: So does it mean that remaining silent is not employing the intellect?
Dadashri: You cannot maintain silence even if you want to.
Questioner: No, but what if one was able to remain silent?
And what are you going to do if they turn out to be old and stale? That is how it is in the worldly life. Only sometimes do you get stale things you don't get it every day. Then there is also one's merit karma accumulated from good acts (punya), is there not? A good man's punya is always good! That punya is always present for him ahead. Only for a meddling person will the punya be meddlesome.
The Nature of Ego Questioner: What is ego?
Dadashri: How can he? The intellect keeps one emotional. It will never keep him in 'motion' - in normality. Not for a moment will it let you sit in peace. It will wake you up at two o'clock in the morning and make you restless. It will not let you rest in peace.
Questioner: Intellect is not used if one remains only the knower-seer (gnata-drashta)?
Dadashri: There is no problem when one remains the knower-seer. How is the intellect going to be of any use then?
Then, the last 'station' (final liberation) will come, but the intellect will not let one remain as the knower-seer.
Dadashri: Ego is not a thing. Someone tells you, 'You are Chandubhai,' and you believe that you are 'Chandubhai'; that is ego.
Questioner: But when it is hurt, there is no awareness of what is right and what is wrong.
Dadashri: The ego is always blind; it does not have eyes.
Questioner: So is it higher (greater than the rest of them (mind, intellect and chit)?
Dadashri: Yes, it is the leader. It is under the ego's leadership that all this goes on.
Questioner: So then what adjustment should one take at that time?
Dadashri: What adjustment can you take? You (the Self) just have to continue 'seeing how blind the ego is; this is the adjustment you make.
The ego is not a thing, not something tangible. When You' believe, "This (the relative-self) is I, that is all an ego. Only the
If you go to the market to buy vegetables and you are getting late for your satsang, the intellect will not let you go until it takes you to four different shops to shop around. The intellect will keep you wandering around.
Questioner: Then he even brings home stale and overripe okra; he buys them from wherever he can. Does that mean that his intellect did not work?
Dadashri: How can you be sure that the okra will be