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thing. Unless you meet a Gnani Purush, you will never accomplish your work.
Questioner: Is the difference that exists between Gnan and Veda, just a verbal difference? Is there some kind of intellectual exercise involved?
Dadashri: It is only intellectual.
Veda itself is intellectual, it is trigunatmak (possessing three qualities: sattva, rajas and tamas). And the real Gnan cannot be trigunatmak; it is science (vignan) itself. Vignan (Science) is real knowledge, and this knowledge (Veda) is its means (sadhan vastu).
Question: That is correct. But both the words 'Gnan' and ‘vignan' (science) have been used in one place in the Vedas.
Dadashri: You cannot use the word science (vignan) in that context. The Vedas guide you in the direction of science (vignan); they point it out. But the science itself cannot be described and it cannot be expressed. Moreover, you will not find it in books.
Questioner: Knowledge is Truth (Satyam Gnanam), it is said! Do not they also say, 'I am the infinite Soul' (Anantam Brahma)?
Dadashri: Whatever the words are, they are correct! However, Veda is trigunatmak (possessing three qualities of the prakruti: passion-rajas, virtue-sattva and darkness-tamas); it has nothing to do with anything else!
Questioner: But Gnan possesses the qualities of passion, virtue and darkness (trigunatmak: rajas, sattva, tamas), does it not!
Dadashri: The knowledge that pertains to these three qualities (trigunatmak) is called the intellect (buddhi). Veda only does one thing, and that is, it develops the worldly life
