Aptavani 06

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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Purush 'plates with gilding.' Lord Krishna has called avyabhicharini buddhi. Your intellect (buddhi) will begin to become that which is used for the good of the self and the Self (samyak) when you sit with 'us.
Questioner: But what happens after we leave your vicinity?
(dwandva) in the world.
Questioner: Getting caught up in duality and friction is a constant part of life. We find duality wherever we go.
Dadashri: This world is trapped in duality, is it not? And the Gnani is beyond duality (dwandvatita). He knows profit as profit, and loss as a loss. But loss will not affect Him as loss, and profit will not affect Him as profit. Where does profit-loss arise from? The Self is the knower of whether they arise from my, the non-self, or from the Self. The Self is the knower of all this. The Gnani's Way of Looking at the Antahkaran
Questioner: The intellect still interferes. What should we
do?
Dadashri: However much your buddhi gets 'gilded,' that much buddhi will then become right/samyak. Then it will not bother you. Whatever deluded, wrong intellect (viparit buddhi) is there, it will trouble you.
Questioner: What kind of effort should we make so that our entire buddhi remains samyak and not viparit?
Dadashri: You have to come here and turn it into samyak buddhi. You will not be able to do it yourself.
Questioner: Does the buddhi become samyak just by us coming and simply sitting here in satsang?
Dadashri: The buddhi begins to become samyak when you ask questions here and discuss everything and get your answers here. Then You will not have buddhi. It will take a long time for you to dislike intellect, but at least it will continue to become samyak.
Questioner: We have intellect which is used for the good of the self and the Self (samyak buddhi), deluded, wrong intellect (viparit buddhi) and also the force that facilitates a fuller realization of the Self (pragnya), so do they all work together?
Dadashri: Yes, in order to take You to liberation (moksha), pragnya keeps cautioning You and alerting You. And there is the energy of ignorance (agnya) which will not allow you to go to moksha. Agnya will never let you go to moksha. Agnya is the exhibition of the intellect. The intellect will always show you worldly profit and loss; it will only show dualities
Dadashri: When it starts interfering, you turn your vision away from there. If you are walking along and a person you don't like approaches, don't you turn your face away? In the same way, you should look away and move away from the one that interferes in Your affairs. Who does the interfering? It is the buddhi - the intellect. It is the nature of the intellect to not let anyone break free from the worldly life.
Questioner: When will the intellect come to an end?
Dadashri: If you don't pay too much attention to it, if you keep Your vision (drashti) turned away from it, it will get the message. Then it will come to end by itself. It will continue to interfere as long as you give it a lot of importance, and if you *accept whatever it tells you and take its advice.
Questioner: We, the Self, should have some influence over the mind, intellect, chit and ego, should 'we' not?
Dadashri: 'Machinery,' that which is mechanical, can never be influenced. Therefore, there can never be an influence over the mind-intellect-chit-ego (collectively called the