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This Gnan is non-competitive. It is not a competitive Gnan. That is why we say it is very rare...rare...rare. It is very rare to find a Gnani Purush.
Expert in One, but in everything else...
It has also been printed in the Aptavani (Dadashri's books on Gnan) that 'we are abuddha (without any intellect). I tell people 'I am abuddha', so the well wishers plead, 'do not say that, please do not say that!' Dear brother! You too should say the same thing. You too become abuddha! If not, you will be beaten to no end. These people will 'break your legs!
Therefore, you should not talk about becoming someone with intellect (akkal). That is why 'we' have discovered the factory of abuddha'. See what 'we' discovered! And in the worldly life if we do not understand something, we can find a lawyer and tell him, 'please take this money and do something about it. This man has been after me so find me a solution.' Why would we use our akkal (intellect) negatively when we can find someone to do so? You can hire someone for twenty-five rupees, some for Rs. 50 and some for Rs. 100, and some you can hire for 500 rupees for the whole day. Why should we use our akkal when you can hire people like these? Do you understand this?
And this man is very punyashadi (one with a lot of merit karma) that people tell him, you have no sense (akkal). That is very good. That is like winning a trophy.
Such people have not allowed me to sink deeper. They say to me, 'hey, wait do not go in. You will sink. You will get stuck in the mud!' And so 'we' say, 'very well.' 'We' attained this Gnan because we remained at this shore, otherwise we would have sunk. We did not use the intellect that misguides and leads people into conflicts. Otherwise look at the faces of those who are sunk, they look as if they just had some castor
Questioner: But what if the people consider us fools in all respect?
Dadashri: Yes, but that is precisely what you need to become. Your tremendous merit karmas have awakened! You should not interact with those people with pleasure and ease. With them, you should pretend, only as a show, that you want to enter the 'horserace' and compete against them. But when you go there, go ahead and lose the race, so that they feel good about winning. I have done that so many times and I tell them, 'I am not very smart. I am clumsy.' This is the best solution. Otherwise all these are nothing but race horses and racecourses In these racecourses, whom will you run against? When we do not have even the energy to walk, whom will we run against? However, people will then tell you, then run with the older people' so I tell them but I can't even run with people older than myself and really I don't know anything else. What use do we have for this babuchak's (incompetent's) intellect; an intellect that one can even rent?
You can hire experts from anywhere. If you ask someone what his expertise is, he will say 'income tax'. He will be for hire, the doctors are for hire, the lawyers are for hire, and everything and everyone is for hire!
Every man is an expert in his own field and occupation and incompetent in others. I am better off. Instead of calling myself an expert in something, I say 'I am babuchak (incompetent) in everything. 'A person can be the best solicitor in India but in certain matters he will say, 'For this you will have to go to someone else. 'Even a prominent doctor will come to us when he wants his home built, however the poor man is modest. It is because he has no clue about construction. That is how the world is. They are incompetent in other matters. No one person can be good in everything and therefore he has to be considered incompetent in other things, does he not? So why not be incompetent in everything? Do you not understand?
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