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(sansar). It slowly and gradually develops anything that is based
on the intellect (buddhijanya), and together with that, should
you meet a Gnani Purush, then your work would be done: you
need to find an instrumental person (a nimit), that is all. If you
do not find a nimit, then your work will not get done.
What does the Veda say? It says that this encompasses all
the intellectually based knowledge (buddhijanya gnan), and so
it has come to be known as Vedanta. Now Gnanjanya Gnan
(experiential Knowledge of the Self, that arises from Gnan) means
science (vignan). You have to enter it to become familiar with it.
The Gnani Is Evidence of Moksha
Questioner: The Vedas have mentioned twelve steps that,
lead one from human happiness (manushya anand) to bliss of
the Self (brahmaanand), they have described how you can go
from one step to the next.
Dadashri: And even at the final step, which is the twelfth
step, they only know that sugar is sweet, that is all they know,
but what is meant by sweet, they do not know.
But upon reaching the twelfth step, where they become
convinced that, this is the sweetest of all things, and that they do
not need anything more other than this. But what does sweet
mean? That is what they are looking for, there. Then, if the
person meets a Gnani Purush there, that nimit (instrumental
person), who then would put into his mouth that, ‘This is That’.
Questioner: Now, are you telling me that Gnan is an
internal thing, or that Veda is an internal knowledge? So, is
Gnan in Veda, or is Veda in Gnan?
Dadashri: Gnan is in the Veda and the Veda is in Gnan,
but science (Vignan) is outside the Veda.
Questioner: Gnan (knowledge) and science (vignan)
are both given in the Veda.