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Questioner: If I am talking about Dadaji's Gnan with someone, to begin with, in my mind there is the feeling of, 'I know'.
Dadashri: Yes, that verily is this disease.
Questioner: So how should I talk to people, Dadaji?
Dadashri: But those talks will not have any substance and competence (barkat). They will not be fruitful. How will it fit the other person? 'I know' is a grave disease!
That is why 'we' say, that in conversing with anyone, we apply a counter-pulley to come down to the level of the questioner. 'We' do not have the disease of 'I know', so it is easily applied. 'We' do not have that disease at all. 'We' are free from all such diseases. By sitting near 'us', all such diseases in you will go away. Keep asking me things and get your work done. It is not going to do you much good if you just sit here. For that matter even this tube light just sits with me, does it not?
When a conflict occurs with someone, talking to him with the intoxication of 'I know' in the mind makes a mess of everything. You will not be able to maintain the right level! The 'level' will not come!
Questioner: Dadaji, the awareness should be such that the moment a wrong thought arises, it would be caught immediately; it would be caught the second it arises.
Dadashri: Yes, it is enough if it can be caught. It must be caught the moment it sprouts. That is why 'we' tell you to destroy it the moment it sprouts, the moment you see another part growing, destroy it. But how can this be possible without awareness (jagruti)? And tremendous awareness is needed. How can one even have that much expectation? Therefore, you cannot expect everything.
Therefore, tackle with a solution. If someone comes and tells you 'your knowledge is very deep and profound', know
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instantly that this is the place where the disease is going to grow. That is the direct cause of the disease! Become very alert there!
Did you ever experience sweetness in this matter before? The day the sweetness takes hold within, is the day this disease will arise. Then if the sweetness is experienced again in it, it will sprout long shoots, just like the shoots on the mango tree. It reaches a certain height with two shoots, then with an additional pair of shoots, it will grow taller; it will continue to grow in this manner. If you drink the water of this sweetness, it will nurture this plant. If the sweetness arises upon hearing someone say 'Wow Chandulal! You have become a Gnani', then the disease has started to grow within.
Now if that happens, if the sweetness is experienced, you should apply another solution. This solution is to erase it immediately. We do have solutions for it. It is natural for that disease to arise. The disease of the seed that has been sown in the past life will manifest in this life but we do have solutions for the diseases, here. This Vignan (science) we have is not without solutions, is it?
Questioner: No. Here every sentence is capable of getting rid of all diseases.
Dadashri: Yes, we do have the solutions. The root of this disease lies in the sweetness that prevails when someone gives you compliments, 'what a great thing has happened.' And there is sweetness in this, is there not? It will make you forget liberation.
Questioner: But it is dangerous, very dangerous as far as liberation is concerned.
Dadashri: Yes, dangerous, it is killing of the self (atmaghati)! If someone says that to you, you simply have to reply, 'my dear fellow, only I know my situation. How would you know?' If you say this, he will calm down. Do you want to be a guru?
