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(dwandva) in the world.
Questioner: Getting caught up in duality and friction is a
constant part of life. We find duality wherever we go.
Dadashri: This world is trapped in duality, is it not? And
the Gnani is beyond duality (dwandvatita). He knows profit as
profit, and loss as a loss. But loss will not affect Him as loss, and
profit will not affect Him as profit. Where does profit-loss arise
from? The Self is the knower of whether they arise from ‘my,’
the non-self, or from the Self. The Self is the knower of all this.
The Gnani’s Way of Looking at the Antahkaran
Questioner: The intellect still interferes. What should we
do?
Dadashri: When it starts interfering, you turn your vision
away from there. If you are walking along and a person you
don’t like approaches, don’t you turn your face away? In the
same way, you should look away and move away from the one
that interferes in Your affairs. Who does the interfering? It is the
buddhi – the intellect. It is the nature of the intellect to not let
anyone break free from the worldly life.
Questioner: When will the intellect come to an end?
Dadashri: If you don’t pay too much attention to it, if
you keep Your vision (drashti) turned away from it, it will get
the message. Then it will come to end by itself. It will continue
to interfere as long as You give it a lot of importance, and if You
‘accept’ whatever it tells you and take its advice.
Questioner: We, the Self, should have some influence
over the mind, intellect, chit and ego, should ‘we’ not?
Dadashri: ‘Machinery,’ that which is mechanical, can
never be influenced. Therefore, there can never be an influence
over the mind-intellect-chit-ego (collectively called the