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'I know' is spiritual suicide
Questioner: Can one say that this, 'I know, I understand', is the greatest obstruction in the path of moksha-liberation?
Dadashri: Yes, it is a very grave danger and will lead to one's spiritual suicide-aapghati kaaran.
Questioner: Please give more clarification about this danger. What will it be like when one is free form it? What will be a person like when he is filled with this grave mistake? And, how can one maintain awareness against this mistake?
Dadashri: These small children have a healthy fear of older people. A little child feels fear because of the heat of the intellect of the elder person, so what one needs to do? One has to become like a child, just like a child with limited understanding. One has to interact with children after becoming a little child then it will play with you. Even a year and half-old child would play with me, as if we were of the same age. Should we not be able to see some kind of result, at least? Think about this and one day you will be able to understand. Once it comes in to your understanding then you will be able to find it. And one needs to have an impartial approach—not take sides of Chandulal. This ability to see it from the viewpoint of the child may be difficult for you due to deficiency of keen internal awareness jagruti, but it will come to you eventually.
All these wrong doings in the worldly dealings vyavahar happen due to “this' mistake only. This, 'I know' is a very grave fundamental mistake. Consequently, all other mistakes follow. All other mistakes arise from this main mistake. Obstinacy adai persists due to this mistake only. Otherwise, one would be simple and straight. It is easy to be simple and accepting of Dada, in front of you. Here you are in harmony. Does this require any effort purusharth on your part? You need to have the same kind of harmony with a person with whom you do not get along. That is your purushaarth.
