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(jadkamadvat) after attaining this Gnan. (Not a single speck of
dirt from the pond or a drop of water touches the pure lily
flower).
Dadashri: Yes, one remains as the ‘lily.’ This path itself
is one of the water lily. For how many years were you able to
remain that way? How many years has it been since you took
Gnan?
Questioner: It will be a year.
Dadashri: So what state will you be in after ten years?
When so much energy of Gnan is evident in just the first year,
then what will it be like after ten years? And elsewhere, worldly
people claim; those who have gone to the Himalayas (the hermits
and ascetics) claim that they live like the water lily. But really
they are not able to do so. It is all talk; all imagination! Webs
of imaginations! If they claim that, then if one of them is passing
by and you tell me that they live like the ‘water lily,’ I would call
out and say to him, ‘Maharaj, you do not have any sense.’
Then you will quickly discover that water lily! You can never say
that to any maharaj. It is wrong to insult someone unnecessarily,
so then I would give him two hundred and one rupees. If he is
not appeased with the two hundred and one rupees, what would
I tell him? I would tell him, ‘Forgive me, my mind is a little off.
I had a fight with my brother.’ He then would agree and say,
‘Yes, his mind is like that.’ He will even put his hand on ‘our’
head and bless ‘us.’
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