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Aptavani-4
Gnan, I saw the people doing business through an unprejudiced, impartial vision. That is when I realized that I did not know anything. This is nothing but egoism. Just because five people believe it and accept it, does that make you an expert?
Questioner: Your statement of "I am abuddha" is fine through your vision, but what about through the worldly vision?
Dadashri: “I am intelligent" and this Gnan of the Self cannot co-exist. 'We' have the full light of Gnan; therefore, there is no need at all for the intellect, is there? 'The intellect (buddhi) makes you emotional and Gnan keeps you in motion'.
I have become oblivious to worldly life (sansar). I do not even know how to sign my own name. I have not written anything in the last fifteen or twenty years, and so I have forgotten how to write. It is possible to automatically forget this worldly life. You do not need to try all these different experiments. It will be forgotten when you break free from its familiarity (parichaya). Therefore, you should get rid of its familiarity. Routine, worldly life interaction (vyavahar) is not a problem; the problem lies in its familiarity.
The Ledger of Analysis!
What have you brought along with you from your previous life? You have brought everything that is necessary for 'Chandubhai' (the 'relative' self): all that is necessary for the mind, all that is necessary for the chit, for the intellect, and all that is necessary for the ego. Now Nature supplies all those things to you, and yet you claim that you yourself are doing it. When everything is already ready, what can you say that you have done? To do something for which nothing is ready, is considered a purusharth (self effort).
You have already come prepared with: this shop, this office, wife, and the children from your past life. This is the karmic account. The Atma (Self) has no father, nor son. It is
