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if the child has acquired Gnan, that Gnan will immediately make
him aware that, ‘She is a pure Soul and I am a pure Soul and
whatever is happening is the interplay and discharge between
the two pudgals (non-Self), and that the karmic accounts are
being settled.’ The pudgal (the non-Self) is made up of mud and
the intellect is made up of light. It can give you light and at the
same time it can scorch you. That is why I call the intellect
sinful. It is necessary to become free from intellect (abudha).
Intellect can make a person above normal and it can also make
him below normal. There has to be normality in every thing in
the world. Normality can never be achieved without one
becoming free from the intellect.
I am sans intellect, free from obstinacy, open-minded and
in normality. Just one single strand of my hair contains the
knowledge of this entire world.
Those with lesser intellect have a soft and tender heart;
such a person, if he chooses to solve the puzzle of life, will go
all the way on the right path or if he does something wrong, he
may even go all the way on the wrong path. If a person were
to not use his intellect for just one day, he would accomplish his
spiritual work. If you want to sow seeds for a next life then use
your intellect. It is not under your control to increase the light
of the intellect but you do have the control to diminish it.
Therefore keep the intellect diminished. The intellect is not
universally beneficial whereas Gnan is.
The Power Of Concentration
A man with limited intellect will be prone to abhorrence.
A man with expansive intellect (worldly wisdom) does not exhibit
abhorrence. When you visit a museum, do you show any hatred
towards anything there? Koosung (company of anything or
anyone other than the Self) means repeated teasing of the
intellect, this way and that way.