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Aptavani-8
Therefore, you need to either know the wheat, or know
the grit, but it is fine if you know just one of them. If you wanted
to separate the grit from the wheat, would it not do just to know
the grit?
Questioner: When you know the grit, all the rest will be
the wheat.
Dadashri: So what they are saying is, ‘If you know one,
you will know both.’ And this is why ‘we’ make you know the
pure Soul (Shuddhatma). And so you will know the rest.
How do these people talk? ‘Oh hey, Ben (sister), have
you sorted the wheat yet?’ What she is really doing is picking
out the grit! Well, just look at our language! You go there and
you say, you were saying that you were picking the wheat, but
you are picking the grit! And she will reply, ‘No, I am only
picking the wheat!’ Nevertheless, they still manage to pick out
the grit! Why would people talk like that?
Questioner: They just do not have the right understanding!
Dadashri: This worldly life (sansar) is in the form of
illusion (bhranti), so even what people say is all wrong!
Is the Atma Without Attributes or With
Infinite Attributes?
If one could just understand the true meaning of what
Lord Krishna has revealed, one could become a true devotee.
Lord Krishna had uncovered the entire science, and he said that
the four Vedas were trigunatmak (possessing three characteristics
of the prakruti, the non-Self complex: rajas, sattva, tamas).
These four Vedas are for the people. However, those who want
to attain the final liberation (moksha), must go beyond the four
Vedas, and come into the Gita.
Questioner: You have spoken about trigunatmak, but is
not it said, that the Atma has no attributes (nirguna)?