Aptavani Shreni 04

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Aradhana Trust

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particles (parmanus) of the ego. Opinion shows personalities: it alters one's vision completely. There is no objection to 'lifeless' opinions; however, opinions backed with insistence, veil the Gnan.
To be free from the opinions about the inanimate (achetan) is relatively easy once you decide to do so. Whereas, even if you give up the opinions about the mishrachetan (power chetan; the relative self, other living beings), the other person will still not leave you alone! By forming opinions about other human beings, whose faces contort with anger and revenge, what grave results are invited!
Opinion invites obstacles (antaray). There are terrible perils from the obstacles caused by opinions; they increasingly bind one in places where one needs to be free.
This human body complex, works according to the opinion of the 'charged' self (pratishthit atma; the relative self), within which the Self is only giving presence as the One with devoid of worldly attachment (udaseen bhaav).
[6] The Blindness of 'Know-How' He that knows nothing in this world is a “Gnani.' The Gnani, who appears to others as 'highly intelligent, is actually abuddha (free from the use of intellect). The Gnani says, “Even at age seventy, I still do not know how to shave.” Those who believe that they are “experts” are cheating themselves and everyone else. No one is capable of becoming an “expert”. Being an expert, is a natural gift. A Gnani is an expert in the science of Soul (Atmavignan).
A person has come into this world and brought with him all that is necessary for the mind, and all that is necessary for the chit (inner component of knowledge and vision), intellect and ego. Nature supplies them all. In this, where does one's own
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