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thing. Unless you meet a Gnani Purush, you will never
accomplish your work.
Questioner: Is the difference that exists between Gnan
and Veda, just a verbal difference? Is there some kind of
intellectual exercise involved?
Dadashri: It is only intellectual.
Veda itself is intellectual, it is trigunatmak (possessing
three qualities: sattva, rajas and tamas). And the real Gnan
cannot be trigunatmak; it is science (vignan) itself. Vignan
(Science) is real knowledge, and this knowledge (Veda) is its
means (sadhan vastu).
Question: That is correct. But both the words ‘Gnan’
and ‘vignan’ (science) have been used in one place in the Vedas.
Dadashri: You cannot use the word science (vignan) in
that context. The Vedas guide you in the direction of science
(vignan); they point it out. But the science itself cannot be
described and it cannot be expressed. Moreover, you will not
find it in books.
Questioner: Knowledge is Truth (Satyam Gnanam), it
is said! Do not they also say, ‘I am the infinite Soul’ (Anantam
Brahma)?
Dadashri: Whatever the words are, they are correct!
However, Veda is trigunatmak (possessing three qualities of
the prakruti: passion-rajas, virtue-sattva and darkness-tamas);
it has nothing to do with anything else!
Questioner: But Gnan possesses the qualities of passion,
virtue and darkness (trigunatmak: rajas, sattva, tamas), does
it not!
Dadashri: The knowledge that pertains to these three
qualities