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(swabhav). If the local authorities come and open up the gutter around your home, will the gutter not show its nature (stink)?
Questioner: It will.
Dadashri: How do you view that?
Questioner: Remain as knower-seer (gnata-drashta).
Dadashri: When you are relaxing, you happen to get the stench of it, so you have to remain gnata-drashta. Similarly when 'gutters' show up in the prakruti, you have to maintain awareness (jagruti) at that time.
Questioner: If 'I-the Self' keep seeing the 'neighbor's prakruti and do not guide and correct it, how can that be acceptable? Is that not considered hypocrisy?
Dadashri: What authority do You have to guide it? You are not to interfere (dakhal) in it. Do you know who runs all this? We do not run it and neither do we correct it. It is all under the control of vyavasthit. So what is the point of interfering with it? If we try to do something that is not our dharma (inherent in our nature, swabhav), we will give rise to something else (pardharma).
Questioner: Will the wrong, hurtful conduct stop in this life through Gnan or not?
Dadashri: It might. If you do what the Gnani Purush tells you, then it can happen within five to ten years! You know, it can also happen within a year or so! The Gnani Purush is considered the Lord of three worlds (celestial - devlok; human - madhyalok; and underworlds - paatadlok). What is not possible in his presence? Can anything be left behind, unfinished?
You have to sit with Dada and understand everything. You have to make time for satsang.
'We are thirsty for Keval Gnan, we will give this life for 'Dada'
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'Amey keval gnan pyaasi, Dadaney kaaje aa bhuv, deshoo amey gaadi'
What is his thirst for?
His thirst, the yearning, is only for absolute knowledge (keval gnan). Now his thirst is for nothing else. So 'we' ask him, "There is thirst within; look for it deep within you.' So he will say, 'The thirst is in the relative-self (prakruti), I do not have any thirst.' Some have a quarter's worth of prakruti left, some have fifty cents worth left and some have seventy-five cents worth left of the prakruti. So does God punish the one with the seventy-five cents of prakruti? The answer is 'No, You have to take care of whatever deficiency you, the prakruti, have.' The deficiency in the prakruti leaves by 'seeing' and 'knowing' it.
Now as long as there is prakruti, all its shortcomings will eventually come to end if You do not interfere (dakhal) in it. Prakruti takes care of its own shortcomings. Interfering occurs when one says, 'I am doing it."
If one has not taken Gnan, then the prakruti continues in the wrong the whole day long. And now, it walks on the right path. You may tell someone off, but from within you feel, 'No, I cannot do this. I have to do pratikraman for telling him off." Whereas, before you attained Gnan, you felt that he deserved even more telling off, and you would even do it.
Therefore, whatever goes on within you now is energy of the Self (samkit-bud). It is a tremendous energy which continues working day and night.
Questioner: Does pragnya (energy of the Self that is awakened within upon Self-realization and leads one to ultimate liberation) do all the work?
Dadashri: Yes, pragnya is doing all that work. Pragnya
