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(nirbhayta) and because of that one attains the state without
any association (nisangata).’
Now the suspicion referred to here is different from
worldly suspicion. It means suspicion that occurs starting point
of gnan, the pursuit of spiritual knowledge, the entry into path of
liberation to the final liberation. All this suspicion is regarding the
Self. Up to what point is it considered suspicion? To the point
where one no longer has suspicions about the Self; to the point
where there are no suspicions or uncertainties about what the
Soul is and what it may not be. Until then one will not attain the
state devoid of suspicions (nihshankta). When one attains the
state free of suspicions, then no energy in this world can create
fear. Absolute fearlessness is nirbhayta. And when one attains
the state of fearlessness, then despite all company and
associations, he is nisang - meaning he is aloof, without
association (independent). Despite grave and threatening
associations and connections, there prevails a state of absolute
freedom and that is moksha. That is what Krupadudev is saying.
There is not a single person in this world that has become
completely free from suspicions about the Soul. Had anyone
attained this state, he would have found liberation and he would
have helped another five people or more achieve the same. But
instead people are wandering aimlessly and so is he.
This is what happens in the Gnan Vidhi
Otherwise, man has not become suspicion-free in any of
his past lives, and especially in matters of the Soul, no one has
become suspicion-free (nihshankta). It is not easy to be
suspicion-free about the Soul.
This Gnan makes you suspicion-free (nihshank). How
does it happen? When the component of mind-intellect-chit-ego
(antahkaran), the sense organs (gnanendriyas), organs