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Aptavani-1
The power of concentration is limited and depends on the
power of intellect. Whatever a person has brought within his
receptacle of intellect is what is going to discharge in this life
and nothing more. The thieves in India are capable of
concentrating on as many as sixteen different things at the time
of stealing. The thieves go out to steal without eating a meal and
so their power of concentration is heightened. Where to steal?
At what point? At what time? Where will the policeman be?
Where is the purse? In which pocket? How to pick that pocket?
How to escape and from which door? Thieves in India can
concentrate on sixteen such things at a time. The power of
concentration arises completely out of intellect and not out of
Gnan. The power of concentration may increase but goes down
with a heavy meal. That is how strange all this is. If concentration
were result of Gnan, it would remain constant. It would not wax
or wane.
Questioner : Is intellect the same thing as illusion (maya)?
Dadashri : No, maya is ignorance of the Self. Ignorance
leaves as soon as you acquire Gnan, but the inner instrument
(antahkaran) remains. Intellect remains and incites one to
participate in things profitable in the worldly life and makes one
wander in the world. What is intellect? If someone was deceiving
your son, your intellect will compel you to interfere. In reality it
is vyavasthit that does everything but still the intellect interferes.
First the mind informs the intellect and then only the intellect can
interfere. The intellect interferes in everything. At night when
you are dreaming there is no interference by the intellect and
everything goes well. In the same token the worldly life is also
a dream in your wakeful state.
What would happen if a passenger sitting next to the
driver grabs hold of the driver’s hand, when there is a bus
coming directly at them? There would be an accident. But people
are smart, they would not do such a thing because they know