The independence it gives you leaves no superior over you. The
‘mechanical’ intellect gives worldly things.
‘Who am I? What is the basis of my existence?’ It is
imperative to know adhaar and adhaari, meaning what support
is and what being supported is. ‘What is worth doing in the
world, what is not worth doing’, ‘what is to be known and what
is not to be known’; only this much needs to be understood.
Viraha (pining, the fire of separation from a loved one)
means there is no state of ease; it is only then that one becomes
free from the worldly life. The pining of separation should be
for the Gnani. This separation generates ‘electricity’ within
and it energizes the Self! Viraha is considered a very valuable
thing. Those who have come to know the Gnani, for many an
era, come to have viraha. Such individuals are bound for
moksha.
Our real nature is Sat Chit Anand (sat – eternal, chit –
knowledge and vision, anand – bliss). The Gnani Purush
fractures your wrong belief and establishes the right one. After
that You attain the awakened awareness, ‘I am pure Soul’; You
attain Gnan and then there is constant awareness! After that
illusion (maya) and illusory attachment (moha) go away.
The illusory attachment (moha) Gautam Swami had for
Lord Mahavir Swami is called prashasta moha (praiseworthy
and the best kind of illusory attachment). With that all worldly
illusory attachments get destroyed and moksha is surely attained.
Praiseworthy moha means attachment that happens for the one
who will take You to moksha. It is not harmful moha. It will
result in moksha; there may be a slight delay, but so what?
Attachment for the Vitarags, attachment for the things that impart
non-attachment (vitaragata) is called prashasta moha.
Where there is doubt (shanka), there is the invasion of a
cyclone! And for final liberation one has to be entirely doubt-
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