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The Flawless Vision
intellect is a way to liberation.
The intellect will become still either way, but that stillness
should not come from blaming others. If you place the blame on
yourself, your problems will be solved and the intellect will also
be stilled.
This false use of intellect is what complicates and entangles
the world. This is what prevents one from detecting one’s own
mistakes, and quickly brings forth many mistakes of the others.
Those in whom the intellect does not arise have no problems
whatsoever. There are so many animals and other such living
beings on this earth and none of them complain. Only man
complains, because the intellect arises.
Questioner: Dada, this is an extraordinary enlightening
statement from you about pacifying the intellect! So far we were
indeed pacifying the intellect by seeing the faults of others.
Dadashri: Yes. For the purpose of pacifying the intellect,
people end up blaming others rather than themselves. What else
can one do? People need to appease their intellect somehow, and
so they blame others. So when the intellect becomes restless,
what should you do? You should say that the fault is entirely mine.
Therefore, the intellect will be stilled within. Otherwise the moment
the intellect becomes restless, it sets the entire the inner complex
of mind, chit and ego rippling into motion. It shakes up this inner
complex, creating havoc. Until the intellect is pacified again it will
continue to riot. Those without Gnan try to appease their intellect
by looking at the faults of others and they do so at their own risk,
while you who have Gnan will pacify it by looking at your faults
exclusively. Once the intellect becomes pacified, the internal unrest
will cease, if not, the thoughts will continue to flow in a torrent of
an endless stream.