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Dadashri: It is the ego that takes away all the 'food”. Garva is doership. This is associated with the taste of doership garvaras. Both are on the basis of ego ahmakar. It is verily the ego (discharge ego that exists after Gnan) that makes You slip and become trapped in the taste of doership garvaras, by 'This is very good, it is very good, people like it.'
Questioner: If one tastes too much of this sweetness of doership garvaras of the ego, will one fall and slip again?
Dadashri: Of course! It is all nothing but sweetness that one experiences in doership. When someone says, 'I did all this', it produces garva of doership. As long as a person makes money, the sweetness of doership garvaras will continue to arise, but when a loss is sustained, what does he say? He will say, 'It was God's wish! Let go of this foolishness! You claim to be the doer when you were making the money, and now you are blaming God! When garvaras arises, there is sweetness in it. Wherever you find 'sweetness', know that a beating and suffering is around the corner.
When there is no difference between the salty and the sweet, then know that Gnan is present. The who does not differentiate the salty and the sweet, and is not affected by either, is the one who has Gnan.
You should not even say a single word to explain or clarify any questions. Let there be casual conversations. Do not even believe or harbor a difference between the other person and you. think that there is a difference between you and other people. This here talks because he wants to show his superiority and importance visheshata. And 'he' (the discharge ego that has taken over) is verily the one who instigates and stirs up all those kashayas. Not a single sentence of ours' is uttered with the intent of self-importance vishesh bhaav; the words just flow naturally. This is because the speech is a 'taped record.' (The Gnani has no ownership of the speech) Once speech becomes as if it is a 'taped record' playing , then there is no problem. There is no problem after it becomes such a record., but it does not come forth as a taped record playing, yet, does it?
When two people are talking, one feels like coming in, butting in, with the 'wisdom' (!), that is not called Gnan. Gnan is not something to be
