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moksha’. Liberation is attained through Gnan kriya.
What is Gnan kriya? It means to know and remain as the
Self. ‘Darshan kriya’ is to see and Gnan kriya is to know.
Seeing and knowing are verily the attributes of the Self. Except
for the Self, no other elements have the attributes of knowing
and seeing (Gnan-Darshan); they have all other kriyas.
Dadashri : Is the Self, separate from the body?
Questioner : It is separate.
Dadashri : So how does your body function; with whose
help does it function? It is through the help of vyavasthit, scientific
circumstantial evidence that everything functions. Everything that
you do is really done by vyavasthit shakti. The Self does not do
anything; the Self is merely a knower and the observer of all
that is going on.
The one who is the knower is not the doer and the one
who is the doer is not the Knower. The doer cannot be the
knower and the knower cannot be the doer. The engine does
not know anything about its working. The electric bulb gives
light without knowing it.
Did this ship bring you to the shore from the middle of the
ocean or did you bring the ship ashore? It is the ship that brings
you ashore but it does not know that. Thus the knower and the
doer are two separate streams, but when you allow both to
become one, by saying that ‘I am the doer’ and ‘I am the
knower’, you ruin everything. Both are entirely separate.
The one who does, knows not; and the one who knows,
does not, because evidences are needed in the process of
doership, whereas no evidence is required in knowing. To do
anything, we need the circumstances of evidence to come
together, nothing can occur on its own accord.