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moreover, there must be no unawareness. Why is the world
considered as ‘sleeping’? It is because people do not have
awareness of the Self and the non-Self (swa-par). There is no
awareness of benefit or harm (hitta-ahita) left in the ‘relative’
self. For moksha, kashay is objected to.
‘Topmost’ Awareness
‘Our’ (the Gnani Purush) awareness is the highest; you
would not even know about it. But when ‘we’ make a mistake
while talking to you, ‘we’ would recognize it and ‘we’ would
immediately “wash” it off. There is a ‘tool’– in the form of
pratikraman – in place for that, which ‘washes’ it immediately.
Subtler (sookshmatar) and subtlest (sookshmatam) mistakes
still remain for ‘us’, and they do not harm any living being even
in the slightest extent. I see the whole world as being faultless
(nirdosh). ‘We—the Gnani Purush’ ourselves have become
flawless, and ‘we’ only see the rest of the world as flawless. The
ultimate awareness is to see everyone in the world as faultless.
The absolute Gnan that prevails as Gnata-gneya (Gnata
is the Knower and gneya is that which is to be known) is
absolute awareness, and that is ‘our’ state. Those who have
attained this Gnan from ‘us’, should have such awareness, that
during any incident, all ‘our’ five sentences (the Five Agnas -
Special directives given by the Gnani Purush that sustains the
enlightened state after the Gnan Vidhi) should be present at the
same time, so that they will not experience any agitation from
within. You should constantly see the pure Soul within all living
beings, whether it is a tree, a bird or anything else. When you
have such awareness (jagruti), it is considered awareness of the
highest kind. The awareness which is higher than this, is the one
in which, when I talk to someone named Jayantbhai, there is the
awareness within, that I am talking to Jayantbhai, and in reality
he is a pure Soul. That awareness constantly remains within me
as I speak. Awareness is a very special thing.