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around you if they think they are going to get something from
you? You simply have to tell them, ‘This is not a task for me.’
You cannot utter even a word; otherwise it will ruin everything
within you.
Questioner: But can we not at least talk about our own
experiences?
Dadashri: There is no experience. The talk that comes
out is really the words that ‘we’ have spoken. Those words are
now sprouting forth. The experience however, comes very
slowly.
So the entire Vignan of the vitarag should be present. No
one knows even a fraction of this Vignan. It is ‘our’ speech that
had entered within, is what is coming forth. And if some strong-
headed intellectual were to come along, he will destroy
everything with just a few words. Knowledge that is based on
the intellect (buddhigamya) will not work, will it? The world
already has intellectual knowledge, does it not? Arey! People
have memorized volumes and volumes of scriptures. You will
become confused if they utter just one word.
It is ‘our’ Gnan that has been given to you as a seed that
has grown and has produced the resulting (parinaam) experience.
What ‘we’ have given you remains in the form of a seed within
and it will grow again to give results. At the most you may talk
about the Gnan by saying, ‘Dadaji used to say…’ But when
speech comes forth in this manner, for a few days the listener
may feel ‘this man speaks exactly like Dadaji’ but where will
that take you? After a few days, it will make you fall hard; it will
not let you go.
Become a child of The Gnani
When someone gives you a compliment by saying, ‘You
spoke very well,’ tell him, ‘I am simply a child of Dada.’ Just