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Questioner: Have the scriptures not called the intellect nischayatmika - the one that makes resolutions and decisions (nischay)?
Dadashri: Yes. The intellect (buddhi) makes decisions (does nirnaya), yet it even makes one emotional. Sa-iti, Only Through Vignan - the Science of
Separation The Atma is not something that can be contained in the Vedas. The words in the Vedas, pertain to a gross and overt (sthool) language; whereas the Atma is extremely subtle (sookshmatam). How can the two agree? One is gross (sthool) and the other is subtle (sookshma); how can the Veda possibly describe that? The Atma is inexpressible (avaktavya) and indescribable (avarnaniya); there are no words for it, so it would never go down in the Veda. And so they may say, 'Is Veda not the only knower of all things in this world? So who would know beyond the limits of the Veda?' And we would say, ‘No one below the Vedas can know that. Even the Veda would not know. But he, that is above the Veda; is the Gnani Purush who is the only one who knows what the Atma is!' The Gnani Purush may even say to you, 'This is That, This is That.'
Questioner: How can one go from, this is not That’, to “This is That'?
Dadashri: To go from “this is not That, to 'This is That', requires the science of separation (bhed vignan): that the Atma is not this; It is This; it is not this; It is This. And no one, other than the Gnani Purush, has this science of separation.
Whenever Gnanis do arise, they only take a few people along with them. But this is Akram Vignan. Science (vignan) means that this is chetan. Which means, that you do not have to do anything. The Gnan itself will guide and caution you. This Gnan itself will continue doing the work. This is why it is Akram Vignan.
