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Purush. However, if it is protracted and on credit (udhaar); then he could not be a manifest (pratyaksh) Gnani. He would give it to you immediately in cash. Then you would not have to put him to the test! Would you put to the test a bank that gives you cash payment? Any bank that tells you that it can only give you money after six months, you have to examine it or ask around. Therefore where there is only going to be cash (immediately), why would you have to examine it?
Questioner: How can a living being recognize whether or not it is cash?
Dadashri: One can know it right away. If one cannot tell that it is cash (immediate), then there is no Atma within. If there is Atma in the body, one will definitely know. Otherwise, if one wants to be awkward, he will be. He has the freedom to do that! No one says no to him! When one understands what cash is, he would not throw it away!
The Conviction of Attaining the Atma
Questioner: How will I have the conviction (pratiti) that I have attained the Atma (vastu) or not?
Dadashri: Of course you will have the conviction (pratiti) of the Atma! You will indeed have the conviction of what you are! At the present time, the very illusion (bhranti) that exists within you will disappear! 'I am Chandubhai', is illusion (bhranti). 'You' become the very Atma that you truly are, so the illusion does not remain. And thereafter, nothing remains to be asked! 'Chandubhai' goes away. Chandubhai goes back to his home! This Chandubhai is full of doubts, and he himself goes away. 'I am Chandubhai' is a wrong belief.
Bound Through Belief...
Now, even after ten million avatars (lifetimes; births), the right belief would not be established. Where not a single wrong belief goes away, how can a single right belief be instilled?
