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progress. One should not assess his own spiritual level. It is of
use if others do this for him.
Questioner: What kind of level in the mind are you
referring to?
Dadashri: In this very path of liberation, everyone has
deduced his or her own spiritual level. And that deduction is
completely wrong; there is absolutely no truth in it. Once a
person makes the assessment of his or her level, they become
stuck there. There is no further spiritual progress.
You are all at a stage where it will not take much to
deviate from the path and slip off the main track. Amidst such
rampant weaknesses, you need full and thorough understanding
in order to progress spiritually towards total enlightenment
(purnatva). In all this, first deceit (kapat) must leave.
All the energies are wasting away in pursuit of what is not
ours; in the pursuit of the relative; the non-self.
Questioner: And that is the very thing, which is being
covered up with kapat.
Dadashri: Yes, that is the very thing that is covered up
again. Nothing belongs to us; the real Self, yet one takes side of
the non-Self. Hey you! You have already decided (in Gnan
Vidhi) that nothing is yours, but even then you become partial
towards the non-Self (Chandulal). Then he says, ‘oops, I
forgot.’
Questioner: Which is it, does he forget or is he still not
free from taking the side of the relative self?
Dadashri: He has not become free from taking the side
of the relative. He will just say he forgot for that moment but it
is not easy to become free from being partial.
So beware, beware all the time; you need to have
tremendous awareness.