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expertise and know-how. Those who know how to mend shoes
have to continue mending shoes. Those who know how to stitch
clothes have to continue stitching clothes and those who do not
know anything; they have to sit around idle. What can the one
who knows nothing, do?
The Lord has said that whatever knowledge of learning
one has is sustained on the basis of the ego. The one, who
knows nothing, does not have the ego, does he? If the ego is
there, then he will know what to do for sure. I know only this
one thing; the Gnan. Yet people have an illusion that Dada
knows everything! But what does ‘He’ know? He does not
know anything.
‘I’ know only this: ‘I’ know only about ‘the Self’. ‘I’
know that the Self is the knower-seer (gnata-drashta). ‘I’ can
see whatever the Self ‘sees’, but I do not know anything else.
‘I’ would know only if ‘I’ had the ego (ahamkar). The ego has
been absolutely uprooted. It has no roots left whatsoever. There
is no trace or sign of where it was. All its rootlets are gone. How
great a state that must be!
It must be due to sadhana (spiritual endeavor) of so
many past lives that this current state of ours has manifested so
abruptly. Otherwise, I have not learnt anything from this current
life at all. I have not seen any proficiency in any man. I have not
seen any human being as a doer at all.
If a shoemaker is not proficient in his trade, he will
continue making shoes but at the end of the year, he will have
incurred nothing but a loss. This is how people in this time cycle,
are. They incur nothing but a loss. Those who misuse the
intellect incur more losses than profits. They ruin all the leather.
They make the shoes but they also waste leather worth five
hundred pairs. Where is the profit in that? They will put in the
effort but incur unnecessary loss as well. This is the story of the
worldly people. They work and struggle hard in their pursuits of