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the premeditation that I will do this'. Only the one, whose every action is devoid of motive and who firmly believes that no substance is capable of doing anything to another, will be able to exist in such a state of aimlessness. Thus, the one who is capable of avoiding the binding of Karma is a Sadguru.
The fourth quality is apoorva vani - unparalleled speech. Speech is available to all humans and they all make use of it. But that speech, which is specially different from others, which is not to be found anywhere else, is unique, unparalleled speech - apoorva vani. That speech which benefits others as much as the self. Never will a Sadguru utter anything that hurts anybody internally or externally.
They are in that state because of self-experience and they have achieved the essence of supreme bliss themselves. With an intention to bring all the jivas on the path of Moksa, they possess the ability to get other jivas to experience that supreme bliss. It is said that every sentence of the sage is replete with an infinite essence of the scriptures. Secrets which they can open up for us through their unquestioned speech; and that speech becomes instrumental in taking the jivas into the state of self-realisation never experienced before - never heard before. Hence it is termed as apoorva vani.
The greatness of the great men lies in the fact that whatever they say becomes scripture - agams, vedas; while the speech of a common man vanishes into thin air. Thus, the one with such a quality of inimitability in speech is a Sadguru.
The last quality mentioned is paramashruta - one who holds a deep knowledge. “Shruta’ is knowledge. That knowledge which is supreme, the highest is Paramashruta. In other words that which is closest to being complete is Paramashruta. Amongst us, in the Jain tradition, total knowledge is called kewalajnana. Those who have not attained kewaljnana, yet have managed to reached the same level of knowledge through learning are called ‘shrutakewalin's.
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