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takes place, if awareness is present, it will not happen. Wrong things arise out of unawareness ajagruti but not in awareness.
Questioner: Dada what kind of awareness should one maintain, against the arising of such a mistake dosh?
Dadashri: It will not arise in the presence of tremendous awareness jagruti. This is not awareness at all. If awareness is present, the sapling of intoxication keyf of 'I know', will never grow. This "plant' of intoxication has sprouted after Gnan. These very plants have grown after Gnan. All those old 'plants' were destroyed when 'we' gave you this Gnan, but this new "plant' has sprouted since then. This would not occur in the presence of awareness. Everything has occurred because of unawareness ajagruti. There are truckloads and truckloads of unawareness and not just unawareness related to one or two mistakes. Such intoxication will crop up where there is tremendous ajagruti at a very gross and superficial level ; otherwise, it will never crop up, will it?
Questioner: In this matter, what kind of things should one be aware
of?
Dadashri: About everything, It should be such nothing sprouts.
Questioner: So what kinds of things are included in that?
Dadashri: Why does it arise in the first place? The fact that it sprouts is unawareness ajagruti itself. The awareness is deficient by that much. Why should it arise? Why does awareness arise when kashaya happens? Even when the other person is doing kashaya, one becomes aware. The awareness arises even when the kashaya arises in one potaney. This intoxication kefy ,'I know, is treacherous than kashaya; it is a suicidal. It will destroy you. One says, 'I know, but am not able to do anything.' Intoxication of knowledge?! In the ignorant 'Gnan-less' state, there is always the intoxication-ego of, 'I know. But here if intoxication arises after attaining the knowledge of the Self, then how wrong an understanding is that? The intoxication of Gnan!?!
Questioner: Dadaji, kashaya occur because of circumstances. When the kashaya arises, so does the awareness aginst it. It is not something that
