particles (parmanus) of the ego. Opinion shows personalities: it
alters one’s vision completely. There is no objection to ‘lifeless’
opinions; however, opinions backed with insistence, veil the
Gnan.
To be free from the opinions about the inanimate
(achetan) is relatively easy once you decide to do so. Whereas,
even if you give up the opinions about the mishrachetan (power
chetan; the relative self, other living beings), the other person
will still not leave you alone! By forming opinions about other
human beings, whose faces contort with anger and revenge,
what grave results are invited!
Opinion invites obstacles (antaray). There are terrible
perils from the obstacles caused by opinions; they increasingly
bind one in places where one needs to be free.
This human body complex, works according to the
opinion of the ‘charged’ self (pratishthit atma; the relative self),
within which the Self is only giving presence as the One with
devoid of worldly attachment (udaseen bhaav).
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The Blindness of ‘Know-How’
He that knows nothing in this world is a ‘Gnani.’ The
Gnani, who appears to others as ‘highly intelligent’, is actually
abuddha (free from the use of intellect). The Gnani says, “Even
at age seventy, I still do not know how to shave.” Those who
believe that they are “experts” are cheating themselves and
everyone else. No one is capable of becoming an “expert”.
Being an expert, is a natural gift. A Gnani is an expert in the
science of Soul (Atmavignan).
A person has come into this world and brought with him
all that is necessary for the mind, and all that is necessary for the
chit (inner component of knowledge and vision), intellect and
ego. Nature supplies them all. In this, where does one’s own
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