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[4] How Amazing is the Awareness of the Gnani Purush!
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Who are we calling ‘tops’? We are not referring to people.
Lord Krishna has said that it is the prakruti (the mind-speech-
body complex; the relative self, the non-Self) that forces one to
‘dance and spin’ and he does, but then he claims ‘I danced!’
That is what we call as ‘top.’ Whatever Lord Krishna referred
to as a ‘top’ is what we are calling a ‘top.’ The word to describe
this phenomenon is a ‘top.’ No one else will use the word ‘top
(bhammarado).’
Who would say such things that offend people? I can say
them because I know how to do pratikraman. Not only will I
say it, but I will also take the medicine for it (do pratikraman).
But the world should be rid of all the wrong things. The wrong
support and encouragement that was given to the wrong teachers
should not be there. Then is there a problem if one does
pratikraman? At least such support and encouragement will go
away.
(84)
If we tell someone, ‘You have no sense,’ is his state of
water lily (jadkamadvat) not likely to go away? The water
(jad) will fly away and so will the lily (kamad)! Now what do
people say? Why don’t we test him for a month? Hey, you! You
cannot do that; you will go mad in doing that.
So right away you have to test the rupee coin; you have
to tap it to see whether it is real or fake (meaning you have to
test the guru right away, before accepting him, to see whether
or not he has kashays in him). You will know right away. Then
you have to spend two hundred rupees after him! That is when
you have to tell him that your mind is a little crazy; that will
appease him because he thinks that otherwise a good (sane)
person will never say such things, and that this man talks this
way because he is a little crazy. He knows how to evaluate
justice! But at least you got your answer, did you not? What we
wanted is not here because here whatever equanimity there was,
went out of the window! So then you will no longer stop to sit