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Aptavani-5
Dadashri: There is no need for intellect if you want to go
to moksha. The intellect makes you wander around in the
worldly life. It looks for profit and loss wherever it can. Even
when you are travelling by train, it will show ‘there is benefit in
sitting here and loss in sitting there’. The hunger of the intellect
is such that it can never be satisfied. You need something that
has an end. The whole world moves around in intellect driven
knowledge.
Questioner: Should we go beyond the intellect?
Dadashri: There is no choice but to go beyond the
intellect. There is no liberation until then.
The Agna of the Gnani Purush and Swachhand
Questioner: Why is it said that the Vitarag is
encompassed within the Agnas of the Gnani Purush?
Dadashri: There is no other way besides the Agnas, is
there? The one who does not follow the Gnani’s Agna is not
worthy of liberation. He will be able to follow the Agnas when
he becomes worthy; otherwise, swachhand (to act on the
guidance of one’s own ego and intellect) will arise. That is why
Shrimad Rajchandra has said:
‘Roke jiva swachhand toh, paame avashya moksha,
Paamya em anant chhe, bhakhyu Jina nirdosh.
Pratyaksh sadguru yogathi swachhand te rokaya,
Anya upaya karya thaki praye bamano thaaya.’
‘If a being is able to stop his ego oriented actions, he will
attain moksha without fail,
“Countless have attained moksha in this way”, states the
knower of the Absolute.
With direct meeting with a Sadguru-Gnani, ego oriented
action is halted,
Resorting to any other way, only serves to double it.’