the side, enjoy and take it easy by saying, ‘I have no skills’. The
Gnani Purush clearly says ‘I don’t even know how to shave,
even at this age!’
The one with the ego of having skills doesn’t know that
his mistakes are buried under the nature’s ‘factor of safety’ and
he believes, ‘I am so skillful.’
People will keep on doing work as long as there is the
ego of being skillful. What is to be done by those without skills?
The knowledge of skill has continued on the basis of ego. How
can the skill continue where there is no ego or where the ego has
ended?
The Gnani Purush repeatedly reiterates that He has no
skills but people do not believe it. People say ‘Dada knows
everything’. Then, He says, ‘I know about the Self. I know that
the ‘Soul’ is the knower-seer. Whatever the ‘Soul’ can ‘see’, ‘I’
can ‘see’. I do not know anything else.’
When the other person insists (khench), the Gnani lets go
slowly and leaves and moves ahead. If someone insists, and you
insist in return, it will hinder your progress. The other person
insists according to what he ‘sees’, therefore, where is he at
fault?
The one who wants to attain final liberation, the world will
call him crazy; the world will beat him up and throw him out.
Yet, he should accept defeat and sit down. The way of the
Gnanis is to win the world by letting others win! Therefore, in
this world, it is worth learning how to be defeated. Only then,
he can be free from this world. Otherwise, he who is trying to
win is considered as defeated. This research of the Gnani is
worth adopting.
Gnani Purush Himself has become abuddha (intellect-
free; without any use of intellect), whereas the world is trying to
become intelligent or making attempts to be called intelligent!
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