Aptavani-6
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you.’ Do you need a candle when the sun is shining? Therefore,
there is no need for the light of the intellect after you have the
light of the Self. ‘We’ (the Gnani and the fully enlightened Self)
do not have intellect. ‘We’ are without intellect that interferes
and makes one emotional (abuddha).
Questioner: So does it mean that remaining silent is not
employing the intellect?
Dadashri: You cannot maintain silence even if you want
to.
Questioner: No, but what if one was able to remain
silent?
Dadashri: How can he? The intellect keeps one emotional.
It will never keep him in ‘motion’ – in normality. Not for a
moment will it let you sit in peace. It will wake you up at two
o’clock in the morning and make you restless. It will not let you
rest in peace.
Questioner: Intellect is not used if one remains only the
knower-seer (gnata-drashta)?
Dadashri: There is no problem when one remains the
knower-seer. How is the intellect going to be of any use then?
Then, the last ‘station’ (final liberation) will come, but the intellect
will not let one remain as the knower-seer.
If you go to the market to buy vegetables and you are
getting late for your satsang, the intellect will not let you go until
it takes you to four different shops to shop around. The intellect
will keep you wandering around.
Questioner: Then he even brings home stale and over-
ripe okra; he buys them from wherever he can. Does that mean
that his intellect did not work?
Dadashri: How can you be sure that the okra will be