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Aptavani-9 131 Questioner: We will tackle those thoughts when they come! Dadashri: How will they come in the first place? You will not have to tackle them even if they come; You have nothing to do with them. They are of a different caste and so are You. Different caste and different lineage! So nothing can happen, in fact nothing really happens either. One has not even seen anything happen. All are just suspicions and that too it is merely a pudgal bhaav i.e. it is all inanimate and of the non-Self. Nothing happens to You and it is a waste of time and energy. Yes indeed if it were of the chetan bhaav; of the Self, it would overcome You but that is not so, so then? What can the inanimate do to the animate? It would be a different matter if it were chetan. The Gnan says that all that anoints, the anointing tendencies of the mind-speech-body are inanimate - ‘man- vachan-kayana tammam lepaymaan bhaavo, ey jada na bhaavo chhe’ and the ‘Self’ is nirleyp i.e. it can never be affected; it can never be anointed. So what is going to anoint you? Do we not say that the inanimate bhaav are those of the prakruti (non-Self)? Questioner: Yes we do. Dadashri: Then the questions and the speculation of ‘what could it be, what could it not be?’ would never arise. All the anointing tendencies of the mind-body-speech are inanimate attributes, tendencies of matter (the non-Self); they are not of the Self. Their form, their caste and their guise are different. What do they have to do with You? Awareness of Gnan against suspicion Questioner: Now after Gnan, what do we have to do, when suspicion arises? Dadashri: You just have to continue to ‘see’ that suspicion has arisen.