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does not have garva?’ No matter how much peace a Sat
Purush gives to others, he does not have a sense of, ‘I am giving
him peace, I am doing it.’ He knows that He is merely
instrumental (nimit) in the process and that He is merely
unfolding His own bliss for him.
Therefore He (the Gnani) does not have garva of
anything because when there is no ego at all, how can there be
any garva? There is garva when the ego is present.
‘We’ do not have that garva. ‘We’ do not have any
sense of, ‘I performed this action or I did this.’ It is because
people indulge in the taste of doer-ship that they are able to live.
Today even renowned readers of scriptures live on the basis of
taking garva, ‘I am doing it’; they are caught up in its euphoria!
In the presence of this garvaras, which he enjoys so
much, he does not like anything else. One will say, ‘I renounced
everything. I renounced my wife, I have come here leaving
millions of rupees behind, so I must be here for liberation!’ So
I tell him, ‘you know the reason you have come here but how
can we tell what other tastes you like to enjoy? You do not like
money, but there are many other tastes of garva out there; there
is garva of fame. As long as a person enjoys any garvaras, he
should not talk about liberation (moksha).
If we pour water on a drunk, will he not lose his
intoxication? The poor man will say, ‘Sir, there is no fool like
me. I do not understand anything. Sir punish me if you have to
but give me something.’ ‘We’ will liberate him first, because he
has become worthy of liberation. This is all the worthiness one
needs for liberation.
The intoxication (keyf) of ‘I know’ increases
with garvaras
One has read scriptures for many lives without attaining
anything. That is why Krupadudev said, ‘there is no solution (for