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will like it while another will dislike it. Stating opinions, ‘this is
good, this is bad,’ creates raag or dwesh, which is precisely why
this worldly life perpetuates. If you give a small child a piece of
glass and a diamond, the child will keep the glass and his father
will take the diamond because of his intellect (buddhi). The
intellect will procure you worldly gains.
As far as the worldly life is concerned, the correct use of
intellect is to differentiate between what is beneficial and what is
not; it is to be used to make decisions that would help one do
the job properly and to avoid being reprimanded by superiors
at work. Or to take out a bug that lands in dinner plate. The use
of intellect is to be limited to these types of situations and really
the intellect spontaneously surfaces when the situation calls for it.
But what happens when the intellect keeps interfering day and
night? Whether someone tells ‘us’, “Dada you have no sense”
or “Dada you are a Gnani Purush”, both the circumstances are
the same for ‘us’. They appear the same to ‘us’ because ‘we’
are without intellect (abuddha). The intellect will say, ‘I like the
comment, ‘Dada you are a Gnani Purush’ and ‘I don’t like the
comment, ‘Dada you have not sense’. ‘We’ have become
without intellect (abuddha) from the very beginning. These are
mere circumstances, circumstances which sometimes say, “Dada
you are a Gnani Purush” and sometimes, “Dada you have no
sense.” Furthermore, it is all vyavasthit. Vyavasthit will not
pardon you from any circumstances. And if you use your
intellect, you will not escape being hurt from either the pleasant
or the unpleasant circumstance. So let them speak, what have
we to lose? If someone speaks that way, you have to say,
“Record, keep playing; we are listening to you!” Whatever is
being said is a record that has been previously taped and it
cannot change under any circumstances. The ‘owner’ (the Self)
is not the one speaking, whatever is being said is really a
previously recorded tape that is playing and it can never be
changed.