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the rising sun? What ‘we’ are saying is, after acquiring the full
light of the Self, turn off the light of the buddhi. Just as people
have concern about wasting electricity, we should be concerned
about wasting away the light of our Self by using the buddhi.
Whenever we use the light of the buddhi, we waste and weaken
the main energy, the light of the Self. And when you stop using
the light of the buddhi, the light of the Self will increase and
become more effulgent.
Questioner : The light of the buddhi will always remain,
will it not?
Dadashri : Yes buddhi will present itself for help when it
is needed, but you don’t have to keep its switch pressed on all
the time. It will come on automatically. The switch should not
remain in the on position. The buddhi shows you where the
benefits of worldly comforts lie. Buddhi is used in every worldly
activity (of the non-self), whereas, ‘I am Shuddhatma’ is use of
Gnan.
The Self is in its natural and spontaneous state, but it can
remain that way only when the prakruti i.e. the non-self also
becomes natural and spontaneous. When can prakruti become
natural and spontaneous? It will become natural when buddhi
takes a break. You needed buddhi when you were studying in
college, but now that you have completed college, do you need
it? Now you can tell ‘he’ to stay at home because you do not
need her anymore. Just retire her. Buddhi makes you unsettled
and that is why you do not experience the bliss of naturalness
and spontaneity of the Self. Only the non-self is unsettled but if
you put buddhi aside, then you will experience the natural bliss.
When you see a dog, the buddhi will tell you, ‘This dog looks
like the dog that bit someone yesterday. What if it bites me too?’
What control does the buddhi have? The dog will bite you if that
is in your vyavasthit. Indeed if anything were under one’s
control, would people not do everything positive for themselves?
But that does not happen. The buddhi makes one suspicious and