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Questioner: What do you mean by expert?
Dadashri: Man cannot become an expert. To be an expert is a natural gift. In this Atmavignan (Science of the Soul), I have become an expert, and even that is a natural gift. Otherwise, how can a man become a Gnani? That is why I say, “This is but natural.”
As a matter of fact, I do not even know how to walk. People may say, 'Dada walks very nicely'! But since I am looking through the perspective of Gnan (Gnan drashti), I am aware that I do not know how to walk.
Questioner: But everything about you appears ideal to us.
Dadashri: It may seem that way, but I see it through Gnan, I see through ultimate ‘glasses' (spectacles). And with that ultimate light, all this appears imperfect.
Many people tell me that they have learned to eat properly after sitting with me. However, I know that I myself do not know how to eat. I have in my awareness, a picture of how I am eating and how my conduct (charitra) should be while I eat. But who has such ability? It is the one that has the natural gift.
It is not possible for one to have an ego and become an expert at the same time. The ego stops from becoming an expert.
That is why when 'we' tell you that 'we' are abuddha, 'we are saying that from experience, and not arbitrarily. Nevertheless, if it appears prabuddha (extremely intelligent) to you, then it is your own perception (drashti; vision). Where is my vision? Did you understand this? 'Our vision is the ultimate vision.
I used to consider myself an expert in my business. After
