engrossed in worldly pleasures such as success, achievements
and prosperity, or for that matter the knowledge of scriptures –
they are all in garavata and it will not let them come out of the
worldly life. They are stuck there and they make no spiritual
progress. Only the compassion of the Gnani Purush can bring
them out of it.
With explanation and later through Gnan (Self-Realization)
given by the Gnani Purush, one understands that there is no real
happiness in the worldly life and gets the conviction (pratiti) that
real happiness lies only in the Self. Once there is a firm decision
on his part, it will help get rid of garavata. Akram Vignan says
that the one who is experiencing garavata, is not the real Self.
Garavata gradually dissolves away with this awareness.
The Gnani Purush has no doer-ship (garva), no pleasure
indulgence (garavata), no inner or outer inclination (spruha),
no swelling with pride (unmattata), no ‘I-ness’ (potapanu).
Surrendering to such a One, who is in a magnificent state of
Gnan, a seeker’s (spiritual) losses of infinite past lives are
recouped in just one lifetime and he attains the guarantee of
liberation (moksha).
6. Laghutam : Gurutam
The state of the Gnani Purush is such, that in matters of
worldly interactions (vyavahar) he is laghutam i.e. he is the
smallest; the lowliest and in matters of the Soul, the real Self
(nischaya), he is gurutam, the highest. The Gnani Purush is
never the guru of anyone. He is not anyone’s superior and no
one is his superior, not even God. Even God is pleased with the
one who has no ego and ‘my-ness’.
The one who becomes the most ‘junior’ in the world will
be the most ‘senior’ in the whole universe.
In mathematics, the smallest and the final indivisible
amount is the lowest common multiple. From this definition, in
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