Aptavani-9 189
Dadashri: No, to make a decision is intellect, but to accomplish an hours worth of work in fifteen minutes is insight( sooj).
Questioner: Is that what we call practicality?
Dadashri: No, it is called insight( sooj). Many have intellect and insight. Their intellect allows them to make quick decisions. Insight is darshan( vision) and intellect is gnan( knowledge), but they are viparit gnan and darshan i. e. they are deluded knowledge and vision. Meaning it is worldly knowledge and vision; it is mithya( wrong) knowledge and vision.
Selflessness leads to full commonsense
Questioner: The one who has become an expert in worldly interaction is the true expert, is he not?
Dadashri: Yes, the world considers such a person an expert. But the one who has developed commonsense to its fullest is even higher than the expert in worldly interactions. In the expert the commonsense is one sided whereas in the other individual( vyavaharikta), the commonsense is all embracing. Commonsense is from all perspectives and is fully developed. When one tries to be an expert in one thing, he shuts himself off from other things. The expert becomes inadequate in situations that are beyond his expertise.
Questioner: One can be expert only in a limited field.
Dadashri: Yes, he is expert only in certain matters and he becomes weak and inadequate in others.
Questioner: When one sees the worldly interactions through commonsense, it is all a calculated approach meaning it is through the medium of the intellect. And when he sees it through Gnan, that is when he sees through the enlightened worldview, he never sees others as‘ doer’; he sees all under the realm of vyavasthit( scientific circumstantial evidences). What is