Aptavani-5
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‘Outer’ Intellect: ‘Inner’ Intellect
The ‘outer’ intellect is mechanical and the ‘inner’ intellect
helps you to become independent––that intellect is mechanical
too.
Questioner: What do you mean by independent?
Dadashri: Independent means that there is nobody
above you in this world. There should be no superior over you,
not even God. How can you afford to have a superior? There
is dependency as long as there is a superior. How can you
afford dependency? You never know when your superior will
scold you. Therefore, you should not have anyone over you. It
is due to lack of understanding that you have one. I have come
here to give you that understanding. I do not have any superior.
I am telling you that you too do not have a superior. Understand
this fact.
Questioner: What can one attain through the mechanical
intellect?
Dadashri: One can attain all external worldly things
through it.
Questioner: If it is a mechanical intellect, then should
everyone not receive the same amount of external things?
Dadashri: Everyone has a different amount of mechanical
intellect; it is never the same in everyone. The intellect depends
upon one’s ‘development’. Different people in different
continents have different levels of development of the intellect.
So each person has an intellect according to his or her own
development.
Questioner: Where does ‘mechanical’ come into this?
Dadashri: What you believe yourself to be is all
mechanical. You yourself are mechanical. Until you realize the
Self, you are mechanical; it is dependency. Your body too is