52 The Flawless Vision
to do now is to be aware of that understanding and knowledge which is without mistakes.
Knowledge should be perfect. It should be free of faults and mistakes. And so too should your understanding. It would not benefit you to have the knowledge without the understanding. That would be like having a papaya tree that would not yield any papaya. Have you seen such papaya trees?
Questioner: Yes Dada.
Dadashri: You have? You care for the sapling and nurture it until it becomes a tree, and even after you do all that for it, it still bears no fruit.
So both knowledge and understanding should be perfect. Knowledge alone is of no use, but right understanding would still be helpful. Understanding reaches the heart whereas knowledge reaches the intellect.
The current knowledge, the knowledge that people have in their everyday lives, reaches the intellect. Understanding, reaches the heart. Anything done heartily will take one all the way to final liberation. People refer to this as intuition. Whatever understanding one has, gives rise to intuition, and whatever intuition one possesses, will lead to increased understanding. Of all the things that will help you achieve liberation, this is very valuable.
With mistakes, not even your day-to-day life will run smoothly, so how can you expect to attain liberation? Your knowledge and your understanding should become pure, without mistakes. You will understand what is knowledge and what is not knowledge, i. e. ignorance. All mistakes are due to ignorance. From that moment your knowledge will grow.
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