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there is the principle of vyavasthit. People bring them food and drink even if they call them names and curse them. The ascetics survive this way. It is the principle of vyavasthit so it will not fail to provide them with food and drink. People also comment, the man is crazy but what great renunciation! Let's take him some food.' They will bring him food even if he curses them. Now when one says, 'I do not want anything. that too is considered a spruha (inclination). That too is an ego of 'not wanting anything'. Have you ever seen such nispruhi men? I have.
One such nispruhi had come to me. He showed me his padlock. He had made a hole through his penis and put a lock through it. He removed his clothes and told me, 'Look!' You fool! Why do you have to put a lock on a sense organ? What crime did the organ commit that you are putting a lock on it? I did not have Gnan in those days, so I was strong and biased and one-sided. I asked him, 'Why are you here? Why are you doing this? Why are you showing me this?' So he tells me, 'I have put on a lock, can't you see it?' I told him, 'I do see it. Why did you put it only in one place? Why not put it over here too?' He retorted, 'Why do you talk to me like this?' I asked him, 'so what do you want from me?' He says, 'Give me five rupees right now.' I told him, 'I do not have any rupees if you threaten me, but I do have money if you were to ask me for it. I have all the money that you ask for but I do not have any money for your threats. My guru has told me to give to anyone who requests it but not to anyone who demands it from me.' So he became belligerent, 'I am going to do this to you! I am going to take care of you!' I told him, 'You are a big man. You can do whatever you choose. I have nothing so what am I capable of doing? And the money I have is for those who ask with humility' He then said, 'Is there nothing for me?' So I told him, 'Take one rupee.' He did not say anything right away and as he started to walk out of the gate I invited him back and
served him some tea and gave him five more rupees. Then he did not say anything more.
So these nispruhi people go around saying, 'What is it to me... what is it to me...?' They end up wandering life after life and they take others on the same path. And what is a Gnani Purush like? He has spruha i.e. he has acquisitiveness and inclination for the Self in you and is interested in your salvation. He is nispruha - non-acquisitive and non-inclined - in your worldly matters. He does not want anything worldly. His only inclination (spruha) is how salvation can be attained for all. Yet, he is not completely without inclination (nispruha). This means 'we, the Gnani Purush is nispruha-saspruha; which is a state of being non-acquisitive towards the non-Self, and acquisitive of the Self. What does this mean? Neither that shore nor this shore; neither at the shore of the non-Self nor at the shore of the absolute Self-that is where 'we' are at. Therefore, we are nispruha towards your relative self and saspruha towards your real Self. Therefore even if you were to swear at 'us' or insult us, 'we' keep spruha (inclination) for You. 'We place an inner protection even for the unfortunate person that does wrong by ‘us'. Do you understand? No complacency (unmattata) in the Gnani
What is another attribute of the Sat Purush?
Questioner: There is no unmattata, meaning an overflowing sense of satisfaction and inflated pride, in the Grani.
Dadashri: Yes. What is unmattata? Do you understand this? I will explain it to you in your language.
What kind of an ego do people have? If we see a person passing by, he walks in a straightforward manner. He is spontaneous, natural and is walking along in a very orderly fashion. As he passes by again we notice a change in him. His face has a different expression; he appears smug and self
