Aptavani-9 439
Questioner: If I am talking about Dadaji’ s Gnan with someone, to begin with, in my mind there is the feeling of,‘ I know’.
Dadashri: Yes, that verily is this disease. Questioner: So how should I talk to people, Dadaji?
Dadashri: But those talks will not have any substance and competence( barkat). They will not be fruitful. How will it fit the other person?‘ I know’ is a grave disease!
That is why‘ we’ say, that in conversing with anyone, we apply a counter-pulley to come down to the level of the questioner.‘ We’ do not have the disease of‘ I know’, so it is easily applied.‘ We’ do not have that disease at all.‘ We’ are free from all such diseases. By sitting near‘ us’, all such diseases in you will go away. Keep asking me things and get your work done. It is not going to do you much good if you just sit here. For that matter even this tube light just sits with me, does it not?
When a conflict occurs with someone, talking to him with the intoxication of‘ I know’ in the mind makes a mess of everything. You will not be able to maintain the right level! The‘ level’ will not come!
Questioner: Dadaji, the awareness should be such that the moment a wrong thought arises, it would be caught immediately; it would be caught the second it arises.
Dadashri: Yes, it is enough if it can be caught. It must be caught the moment it sprouts. That is why‘ we’ tell you to destroy it the moment it sprouts, the moment you see another part growing, destroy it. But how can this be possible without awareness( jagruti)? And tremendous awareness is needed. How can one even have that much expectation? Therefore, you cannot expect everything.
Therefore, tackle with a solution. If someone comes and tells you‘ your knowledge is very deep and profound’, know