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served him some tea and gave him five more rupees. Then he
did not say anything more.
So these nispruhi people go around saying, ‘What is it to
me…what is it to me…?’ They end up wandering life after life
and they take others on the same path. And what is a Gnani
Purush like? He has spruha i.e. he has acquisitiveness and
inclination for the Self in you and is interested in your salvation.
He is nispruha – non-acquisitive and non-inclined - in your
worldly matters. He does not want anything worldly. His only
inclination (spruha) is how salvation can be attained for all. Yet,
he is not completely without inclination (nispruha). This means
‘we’, the Gnani Purush is nispruha-saspruha; which is a state
of being non-acquisitive towards the non-Self, and acquisitive of
the Self. What does this mean? Neither that shore nor this shore;
neither at the shore of the non-Self nor at the shore of the
absolute Self – that is where ‘we’ are at. Therefore, ‘we’ are
nispruha towards your relative self and saspruha towards your
real Self. Therefore even if you were to swear at ‘us’ or insult
us, ‘we’ keep spruha (inclination) for You. ‘We’ place an inner
protection even for the unfortunate person that does wrong by
‘us’. Do you understand?
No complacency (unmattata) in the Gnani
What is another attribute of the Sat Purush?
Questioner: There is no unmattata, meaning an
overflowing sense of satisfaction and inflated pride, in the Gnani.
Dadashri: Yes. What is unmattata? Do you understand
this? I will explain it to you in your language.
What kind of an ego do people have? If we see a person
passing by, he walks in a straightforward manner. He is
spontaneous, natural and is walking along in a very orderly
fashion. As he passes by again we notice a change in him. His
face has a different expression; he appears smug and self-