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expectations. The Lord has made ‘us’ the only exception. He
has made ‘us’ ‘the one with a life free from all expectations
(nirpeksha)’. There is complete purity here. There are no stains
of any kind here.
Not even a hint of mamata
(attachment; ‘my-ness’)
People of this world cannot be free from expectations;
there is always some expectation. This Gnani is without any
expectation (nirpeksha). He has no attachments (mamata or
mamatva) such as ‘this is my body, my mind, my chit, this is
mine or that is mine’. He has no such attachments (mamata)
and that is why this is a wonderful Vignan.
‘We’ had gone to Surat. There ‘we’ met an ascetic who
was a great renunciant. He practiced renunciation with strict
discipline. Many people would come to do his darshan; that
was the kind of man he was. He told everyone, ‘Come look!
Look! Who is this Dada? If ever I have seen a man completely
free of all attachment (mamata), He is the one. He is completely
free from expectations. I have met some two hundred or so
saints and very religious men but I have not seen a single saint
who is without any expectations. Everyone I met had at least
some expectation or the other, whereas this Dada is the only
man without any expectation that I have seen in my life.’ ‘We’
understood that this ascetic was truly blessed that he could see
this and he knew how to test this criteria in the spiritual path.
I can say this because I knew that there was absolutely no
attachment (mamatva; ‘my-ness’) in me; I did not have such
attachment from a very young age. Therefore, there is no one
in this world without any mamata. Without attachment
(mamata) means a person without ego. You do not have to
look for ego where there is no attachment. A person wit