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anything; all you have to do is just follow the Gnani all the way.”
You may ask, “But what if I have addictions and smoke behind
his back?” To that I say, “You can do that; you can also smoke
in front of him, but follow the Gnani. Do not let go of his hand.”
You may ask, “Who is considered a Gnani?” A Gnani is
someone who has nothing left to know in this world. If you
consider someone who does not know everything to be a Gnani,
then if you ask him something, he may get confused, what can
the poor man do? He will become confused from within and will
show you the scriptures. Now what are we going to do with the
scriptures? Why do you show me the scriptures? Why don’t
you speak from within? Tell us whether the one within is dead
or alive? If you are alive from within, why don’t you say
something? But why do you bring scriptures into all this? The
scriptures are just signposts. They are the ‘board’ that tells you
the name of the station where you need to embark. But do we
need signboards every time? You need them once in a while and
only to know which ‘station’ you are at. The scriptures
themselves tell you, “Go to a Gnani.”
In life, if you want a wrong path, if you want worldly
pleasures, if you want to experience the misery of the ego, the
Lord says, “Read the scriptures and practice renunciation, do
penance, do the rosary beads, do whatever suits you. Take one
subject matter and you will reap its benefits. You will be reborn
as a celestial, a human or in some other life form.’ Surely you
will reap some benefits if you worship any of God’s subjects?
The path of liberation however, is a path free of any subject
matters. In this path there is no renunciation, penance or any
other external subjects.
Vitarags are very wise. They have given us the simplest
and a straightforward path to moksha. Others have created
nothing but confusion and chaos in the path to moksha. It is such
a maze that there is no way out once you get into it. There is
no such mistake in the path of vitarags because they are