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Aptavani-6
Questioner: Is there awareness of existence there?
Dadashri: It is because it has awareness of its existence
that there is so much suffering.
Questioner: What is it like in hell?
Dadashri: In hell, there is pain (dukh) of the five senses.
The suffering and the miseries of the seventh hell (the lowest and
worst level of the worlds that a soul may migrate to) are such
that a person can even die upon hearing about them! There is
tremendous pain there. The embodied beings (life forms) of
undefined classification (avyavahar rashi) do not have such
miseries; they have suffocation.
The Right Intellect and Pragnya
People consider intellect (buddhi) as being knowledge
(Gnan). But buddhi is an indirect light, whereas Gnan is the
direct light.
Questioner: Where does intellect (buddhi) end and the
liberating energy and light of the Self (pragnya) begin?
Dadashri: Pragnya begins before the buddhi comes to
an end. When one meets a Gnani Purush, the Gnani makes him
attain the Self, which is when pragnya begins. This pragnya is
the one that takes him to liberation/moksha – final liberation.
Pragnya constantly cautions and alerts You, and the buddhi
keeps interfering within.
Questioner: But the intellect must have some positive
function, surely?
Dadashri: The only time the buddhi is in a positive mode
is when it has been made intellect that is used for both the good
of the self and the Self (samyak) by the Gnani Purush. To
proceed according to one’s own understanding is called deluded
intellect (viparit buddhi). That is also called contradictory
intellect (vyabhicharini buddhi). The buddhi that the Gnani