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( ashuddha and ashubha meaning impure intellect that which binds demerit karmas), avyabhicharini buddhi( that which binds merit karma) and samyak buddhi( right buddhi which leads towards the Self). In any one of these three states, if a person has had the‘ darshan’ of an enlightened being( jina), then samyak buddhi will arise within him. If he has done darshan of the pure enlightened one, and he places his faith there, that causal seed will not go unrewarded, leading to samyak buddhi which finds the path of liberation very easily.
A grocer gets in a dispute with one of his customers for not paying him 2000 Rupees; in the altercation the customer slaps him. The matter goes all the way to a court. Here, he has not been paid yet and there is a court case. He keeps saying,“ I am very unhappy. This whole mess has made me very miserable.” He has invited all this misery upon himself! No misery will visit anyone, if it is not invited. Miseries arise because of the viparit buddhi. Viparit buddhi is like cutting vegetables with the wrong side of the blade; the vegetables will not cut and your finger will bleed.
The one who is clever, over wise( akkal) will not achieve moksha. The one whom the world considers as very clever is really very dumb and stupid( from the perspective of liberation). The one with cleverness digs his own grave. That is what‘ we’ call stupidity.‘ We’ are without any intellect or akkal.‘ We’ are abuddha. If‘ We’ had a slightest of buddhi, it will give rise to all kinds of interference and dhyans, and in our business‘ we’ would feel,‘ He charged me too much. He did this and he did that.’ It would destroy Gnan altogether.
Limit to using buddhi
We were sitting at Dadar station at seven o’ clock in the morning when all of a sudden all the lights went out, so one man with buddhi asks,“ Why did they turn off the lights?” Well! What do you need lights for when you have the light from the rays of