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liberation!' So I tell him, you know the reason you have came here but how can we tell what other tastes you like to enjoy? You do not like money, but there are many other tastes of garva doership out there, there is garva of fame. As long as a person enjoys any garvaras, he should not talk about liberation moksha.
If we pour water on a drunk, will he not lose his intoxication? The poor man will say, 'Sir, there is no fool like me. I do not understand anything. Sir punish me if you have to but give me something.' 'We will liberate him first, because he has become worthy of liberation. This is all the worthiness one needs for liberation.
Intoxication of 'I know, keyf, increases with garvaras
One has read scriptures for many lives without attaining anything. That is why Krupadudev said, 'there is no solution in the scriptures; it is through experiential knowledge. Therefore, go to a Gnani instead of wrecking your brain and ruining your eyes by reading the scriptures. But then people brag unnecessarily! Then the intoxication keyf, 'I know increases. That is a very strong intoxication. Intoxication from alcohol will come down if we pour water over a drunk but this intoxication can never come down. Not even if the Lord himself were to come to do so. People even have their own ideas about God because of the intoxication keyf 'I know it' has arisen. When will all this end for them?
Along with this keyf, one also have an intent to be respected maan. As it is, he has a habit of enjoying garvaras taste of doership. One would not let go of garvaras, would he? It is very sweet. His garvaras keeps on increasing everytime he says, 'I did this' and 'I did that.' How good he feels when he tells others what he has done! Does he not feel good?
Have ego of 'I don't know anything'
When does one attain the essence dharma of anything? When one reads with intense devotion the words of great man, highly evolved spiritual being with an inner intent bhavna 'I do not kow anything', one binds merit karma punyai and when one does it with an inner intent of 'I know it, then you bind demerit karma paap for sure.
Questioner: But it used to happen with only the intent of 'I know it'.
