Aptavani 01

SR No.: 007534
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation
Publication Year: 2007
Total Pages: 165
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Akram Vigyan
File Size: 20 KB

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Self) and attachment are contradictory. The (vedak) one who appears to be the doer or an enjoyer is the pratishthit atma. All activities visible to the eye or experienced through the senses are of the pratishthit atma and not of the pure Self. The activities of the pure Self are related to Gnan. The pure Self possesses powers of infinite knowledge and infinite vision. These can be comprehended only when one attains the state of the pure Self. It is only then can you understand that as the Self, you are the non-doer. Until you acquire the knowledge of your Self and become the Self, you remain as the pratishthit atma and that is why you are a doer, and therefore the enjoyer and the sufferer. In this state of an enjoyer, you become the doer and thereby create a new pratishthita and a new pratishthit atma and the same old rut continues!
transcending the senses is Shuddhatma. The knowledge of the pratisthit atma is indirect and limited and the knowledge of Shuddhatma is direct and unlimited. The energies charged by pratisthit atma are being discharged in this life. At the end both the pratisthit atma and the Shuddhatma will separate at the same time. At the time of moksha, final liberation, even though the pure Soul is formless, it takes on two-thirds of the form of the final body. In this world, all transactions of give and take whether gross or subtle, belong to the pratisthit atma. In reality no one can be robbed nor can anyone rob. All these are mere dealings of give and take of the pratishtha (charging energies) done by the pratisthit atma.
If you hurt the pratisthit atma, you commit tremendous sin. Why? Because the other person believes, that is who he is. He has superimposed his identity with it. Say if you were to bum this table, you would not commit a paap (karma of demerit) if the table had no owner, but if someone has projected his ownership on that table with this is my table', then you have committed paap. Attachment is created during the time one becomes the enjoyer or the sufferer. During the time of enjoyment, feeling and belief of 'My-ness' or 'this is mine', 'I am enjoying,' is being superimposed on the subject being enjoyed. The same holds true for suffering endured with feelings of 'I am in pain, I am suffering'. The baggage within is nothing but the result of attachment created during the state of enjoyment or suffering. Consequently the kind of fruits you reap depends upon the kind of projection (prathista) you did. If you projected happiness in it, you will experience happiness and if you projected unhappiness; you will experience unhappiness. The current likes and dislikes you experience are the results of your past pratistha. The pure Soul has never been the enjoyer, the sufferer or the doer of anything. To be the enjoyer or the sufferer (vedak) means attachment. Vedak means attachment. 'Shuddhatma' (pure
The Pure Self is only the Observer and the Knower. It is the pratishthit atma that creates everything and that is why people like the look of their faces in the mirror otherwise they would not. All this creation is of the pratishthit atma. As long as the pratishthit atma believes 'I am the doer', it does pratishtha (sows karmic seeds). Every human being creates his own new birth himself. Whatever pratishtha you do, is how you will be. As you sow, so you shall reap. As is your pratishtha, so is your form. Your pratishtha is your pratishthit atma. This is the doer atma in the worldly interactions (vyavahaar atma).
The whole world is groping around in search of absolute truth (sat). The absolute truth is the Self that gives light and shines within you. At the moment there is no one in this world that has found the real Self and if they have, it is the relative self and that too, only the partial relative self. The relative self is the pratishthit atma.
The pratishthit atma (relative self, relative soul) has no power other than to have deep inner intent called bhaav.