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(lalacha); if a person is avaricious and covetous, then Gnan has
not really given results in him.
The entire Gnan of ‘ours’ will be present in a lalachu
person; but it will be through the medium of the intellect.
Therefore, it abandons him in the moment of need. It will not
help him during the time of need, it will move aside. It will
appear to look just like this Gnan; one cannot tell the difference.
But in a person with intense greed, the Gnan will slip away at
the crucial moment, but not so for others.
Questioner: Does Gnan through the intellect mean he has
understood this Gnan through the intellect?
Dadashri: For him, this knowledge has manifested
through the intellect (buddhi gnan). Because of the impurity of
intense greed (lalacha) Gnan will not arise. It is a huge problem
for the poor man. He repents a lot but what can he do? There
is not a minute of bliss for him.
Questioner: What if he confesses and repents; does
pratikraman in front of the Gnani for all the mistakes he has
made and then again he follows, with firm determination
(nischaya) what the Gnani shows him?
Dadashri: How can he do pratikraman when he cannot
even see his mistakes? He will be able to see his mistakes
gradually as he progresses forward according to my instructions.
Right now, he cannot even see the mistakes he has already made.
Therefore, when he starts to abide by ‘our’ Agnas, and
then as he takes care of those in his home and everyone around
him, he will begin to see all his own faults and mistakes. And
when he reaches a certain stage of seeing his own faults, then
even ‘we’ will pave the way for him. But what happens is that
when any intense greed (lalacha) arises, he gets sucked into it,
so all his energies get used up in that. The energies that ‘we’
bestow upon him become exhausted in his intense greed
(lalacha). The liability of this falls on ‘our’ shoulders. After