The Gnani does not need to read scriptures or perform
any religious rituals. Before Him all distinction between a
devotee and God disappear. He himself is God. He is the
Omniscient Manifest. God is an adjective or attribute
applicable to the one who possesses divine virtues! The Gnani
is an incarnation of Divinity.
So long as one is prone to errors, there is God overhead
and as soon as one becomes free from all one’s errors, there
remains no authority of God overhead. The Gnani is beyond
all flaws, faults and errors and that is why he has no one of
authority over him nor does he exercise authority over others
(no underhand). He is completely free and independent.
Every action of the Gnani is divine; it never binds him.
The deeds of the relative world perpetuate bondage of life,
whereas the deeds of the Gnani only serve to liberate. He is
the Self-realized liberated Soul and so He is capable and
competent to liberate countless others.
The Gnani is free from all karmic knots or complexes and
conditionings. All the complexes dissolve and disappear in the
crucible of Self-Realization. He is the Absolute. For him,
therefore, there is no question of renunciation or non-renunciation,
abnegation or acceptance. God Himself has propounded this.
If renunciation were the yardstick of measure in the search for
the Gnani, how will one ever recognize the Gnani? The Gnani
does not require any novel ritualistic practices or penance to set
a new path. His ultimate state in which Self-Realization
manifested is the state that prevails everlastingly. His ‘being’ is
beyond the scanning of the laity. His state of being defies all
mental measures of the mortal beings.
Were one to assimilate in living, three divine virtues of the
Gnani, he would surely find the puzzle of life perishing. These
divine traits are: compressibility, flexibility and tensibility.
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