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which is beyond the limit of these tools (sadhans), you need the
nimit of a Gnani Purush. When you meet the Gnani Purush,
you have to tell him, ‘Grace me with the same state that You
have attained.’ You just have to ask for His grace and in that
too, the Gnani Purush is not the doer. He is just a nimit
(instrumental in the process). It will be done only because he is
a nimit, otherwise it will not happen.
Questioner: The gurus who are in the path of spiritual
quest (sadhanas) do not believe in such a thing as a nimit.
Dadashri: That is true. They believe that they have to do
so much themselves and that their disciples, for sure, have to do
so much. They bind karmas and so do their disciples. However,
as they bind karmas they make progress, whereas this is a
Gnani Purush; He does not become bound and He liberates
others. The inner intent -of being a doer (kartabhaav) binds
karmas and the inner intent of being a nimit (nimitbhaav)
liberates.
The Absolute Self and the Pudgal
Questioner: The Shuddhatma (the pure Self) is simply
the Knower-Seer (Gnata-Drashta), so then who is the one
bothering with ‘doing’ the grace or non-grace? Through whom
does it get done?
Dadashri: No one does anything. All this is just the
pudgal (the non-Self complex; the mind, speech, and body are
referred to as the pudgal, which is a compound word of the
words puran: to charge or inflow and galan: to discharge or
flow outward).
Questioner: Does all the inspiration (prerana) come
from the pudgal?
Dadashri: It is all the pudgal (the non-Self). The ego is
also included in the pudgal. Anger-pride-deceit-greed; they all
come into the pudgal. The entire pudgal goes through puran-