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Aptavani-5
Now what will you do to bring the Self in its dharma?
What tool do you need to accomplish that?
Questioner: Attachment and abhorrence (raag and
dwesh) should decrease.
Dadashri: See this ring. There is a mixture of copper and
gold in it. Now if you were to randomly ask anyone to separate
the gold from the copper, will just anyone do it for you?
Questioner: No, they will not be able to.
Dadashri: Why is that?
Questioner: It is a job of a goldsmith.
Dadashri: Everyone else will tell you it is not their job.
Therefore, if you want to know the Self, you have to ask
someone who has knowledge of the Self.
Questioner: One needs the goldsmith in the form of a
Sat Purush (Self-realized person).
Dadashri: No. All these mahatmas (those who have
attained Self-realization from Dada) are considered Sat Purush.
Who is a Sat Purush? It is one who has attained realization of
the Self and has come into purusharth dharma (the religion of
inner spiritual endeavour of the Self). Sat means eternal. A Sat
Purush is one who has attained the eternal state. He has the
conviction (pratiti) and the awareness (jagruti) of ‘I am pure
Soul’. But he is only a Sat Purush; he cannot be called a Gnani
Purush. In the Kramic path (the traditional path to Self-
realization where austere rituals are required and the seeker
progresses one arduous and gruelling step at a time), the Sat
Purush is involved in tyaag (renouncing) and atyaag (attaining).
The Gnani Purush however is beyond renunciation and
acquisition! He grants the gift of moksha to others. He makes
others the embodiment of Gnan (gnanmay). Shrimad Rajchandra
(also known as Krupadudev, a Gnani Purush of the Kramic