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[4] How Amazing is the Awareness of the Gnani Purush!
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dispute here. Has there been any dispute here? Some person
may have fallen short in understanding, but there is never a
dispute here. No one has ever contradicted Dada’s word,
because it is pure talk of the Self; it is Saraswati (Goddess of
speech) herself! It is deshna – speech of the Omniscient One.
Can one call speech with attachment-abhorrence the truth?
Questioner: No, we cannot.
Dadashri: Then what you say, is that the truth?
Questioner: But is it not considered the worldly truth?
Dadashri: That which is the worldly truth is the untruth
from the real (nischay) view.
Worldly truth means if it is acceptable to the other person,
then it is the truth (satya), and if it does not fit, then it is untrue
(asatya). Worldly truth means in reality, it is not the truth.
Questioner: If we believe it to be the truth but it is not
acceptable to the other person…
Dadashri: That is all wrong. It is all wrong. If it is
unacceptable, then it is all wrong. ‘We,’ too, say that if someone
does not understand what ‘we’ are saying, ‘we’ do not fault
him. ‘We’ see that as ‘our’ fault; ‘Where are ‘we’ at fault that
he did not understand ‘us’?’ He should understand what ‘we’
are saying. ‘We’ do not fault him for not understanding what
‘we’ are saying; ‘we’ consider that as a fault on ‘our’ part.
‘We’ should know how to make him understand. Therefore, the
other person is never at fault. It is a grave mistake to see the
other person as being at fault. ‘We’ have never considered
others as being at fault – never!
It is simply that when someone asks ‘us,’ ‘we’ are
obligated to answer and ‘we’ have to do pratikraman for it.
Truth (satya) is that which is always spoken with pratikraman.