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Dadashri: No, to make a decision is intellect, but to accomplish an hours worth of work in fifteen minutes is insight (sooj).
Questioner: Is that what we call practicality?
Dadashri: No, it is called insight (sooj). Many have intellect and insight. Their intellect allows them to make quick decisions. Insight is darshan (vision) and intellect is gnan (knowledge), but they are viparit gnan and darshan i.e. they are deluded knowledge and vision. Meaning it is worldly knowledge and vision; it is mithya (wrong) knowledge and vision.
Selflessness leads to full commonsense
Questioner: The one who has become an expert in worldly interaction is the true expert, is he not?
Dadashri: Yes, the world considers such a person an expert. But the one who has developed commonsense to its fullest is even higher than the expert in worldly interactions. In the expert the commonsense is one sided whereas in the other individual (vyavaharikta), the commonsense is all embracing. Commonsense is from all perspectives and is fully developed. When one tries to be an expert in one thing, he shuts himself off from other things. The expert becomes inadequate in situations that are beyond his expertise.
Questioner: One can be expert only in a limited field. Dadashri: Yes, he is expert only in certain matters and he becomes weak and inadequate in others.
Questioner: When one sees the worldly interactions through commonsense, it is all a calculated approach meaning it is through the medium of the intellect. And when he sees it through Gnan, that is when he sees through the enlightened worldview, he never sees others as 'doer'; he sees all under the realm of vyavasthit (scientific circumstantial evidences). What is
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the difference between the two solutions that have been used in the worldly interactions?
Dadashri: Solution through our Gnan is different. Questioner: Of the two, which is superior?
Dadashri: The solution through commonsense is superior. Gnan does not have the level of the specific solution.
Questioner: Solution achieved through Gnan will stop all inner burning and turmoil.
Dadashri: Yes, it does, but the external worldly work still remains, does it not? In this respect our mahatmas fall short; Gnan is not useful in bringing solutions to the worldly tasks at hand. Our mahatmas lack this commonsense. He (mahatma, one who has received the knowledge of the Self) marries a young woman, but does not know how to interact with her and settle the relationship with equanimity. Even the sadhus and acharyas (spiritual masters of the traditional Kramic path) would run away on the third day, if they were made to marry a woman! Why? They simply have no knowledge of how to deal with such a life.
Questioner: A person with commonsense will not benefit as much from this Gnan, will he? That is because his vision is also directed towards the worldly life.
Dadashri: That is not considered commonsense. Those are all results of self-interest, they are one sided. Commonsense is that which is applicable everywhere; it has 360° of applicability. Such a person is not an expert in any specific task or matter.
Questioner: But the expert's expertise is in worldly interactions (vyavaharikta), is it not?
Dadashri: An expert's involvement is only in one or two worldly tasks. In other matters he has no expertise. In other matters he may have zero expertise. The one with commonsense does not have a zero in any matter.
