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(lalacha). So when a person with intense greed comes here,
I tell him directly, ‘Shape up here! You have taken a lot of
beating and suffered for countless lives and yet the intense
greed (lalacha) within has not gone. If after coming here to the
Gnani Purush you cannot take care of this problem, what good
is it?’
The speech of the Gnani Purush is vitarag (speech free
from all attachment). So the lashings one gets from this vitarag
speech will hurt a lot, nevertheless these lashings are very
effective. It brings about a tremendous change from within,
however it is not evident externally.
The main attribute of intense greed at work is such that it
will completely disregard even the words of the Gnani Purush.
It will crush the Gnani’s words and discard them. Intense greed
- lalacha! The ego in the form of intense greed in a person will
not break. When ‘we’ give Gnan, this particular ego does not
break; this part remains alive. That is what puts people in such
a grave danger life after life.
The ultimate solution is to follow Agnas
Questioner: Does intense greed (lalacha) not go away
after attaining this Gnan?
Dadashri: It remains alive.
Questioner: So does that mean the Gnan does not have
the desired result for him?
Dadashri: Certain portion of Gnan has given results but
the intense greed (lalacha) is still alive.
Questioner: So does that mean that Gnan has not
produced the kind of results one needs and is that why this
happens?
Dadashri: No. The Gnan cannot give results because
one is a lalachu. Intense greed (lalacha) is at the core; there