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before attaining the Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) and the
experience after Gnan is different. It is a new kind of experience
that continues to grow gradually along with the awareness.
Absolute awareness is absolute experience.
Knowledge Mediated Through the Sense
Organs: Awareness
There are two kinds of knowledge (gnan): Indriya-gnan
(knowledge attained through the medium of the senses) and
atindriya-gnan (knowledge beyond the senses). Indriya-gnan
is limited and atindriya is unlimited. Even in indriya-gnan,
people do not have complete awareness in the worldly life. In
indriya-gnan, a person that is fully aware, would be considered
an elevated sant purush (saint).
Questioner: What is complete awareness of indriya-
gnan?
Dadashri: Five gnanendriya (Five senses; Sense organs
of knowledge namely: hearing-ears, touch-skin, sight-eyes,
taste-tongue, and smell-nose), five karmendriya (functional
organs that facilitate action: the mouth, for eating and speech; the
action of the hands and feet; digestive and excretory organs);
mind (mun), intellect (buddhi), chit, and the ego (ahamkar), all
fall in the category of indriya-gnan.
When a person has complete awareness in indriya-gnan,
his ego will be such, that he will not have any dissension,
because of a difference in opinion (matbhed) with anyone. Even
if someone tries to create matbhed, he will somehow escape
not creating it. If there is a possibility for conflict to occur, he will
ward off the differences. With the awareness of indriya-gnan,
one will not have even the slightest of conflict with anyone. He
will become “everywhere adjustable”; he will not interfere in
worldly interactions.
Even in indriya-gnan, there are two kinds of awareness: