Aptavani Shreni 04

SR No.: 030034
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Aradhana Trust
Publication Year: 2013
Total Pages: 480
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 1 MB

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Dadashri: You do not have to do anything. What can a "top" do? What can one do when he does not even have control over his own bowel movement? The stones that become round, from colliding around over and over, people now say are shaligrams, and place them in temples! Those that became shaligrams end up as idols for worship, while the rest end up in the sea. A person having taken birth in India is himself a 'stone' that has become round. If such people meet a Gnani Purush and attain the Self, they themselves become the idols of worship, while the others are cast into the sea! Without becoming Self-realized, there is no purusharth. Until a person attains samkit (realization of the Self), he will be discharging his karma, while simultaneously binding new karma (akaam nirjara).
The purusharth that people commonly refer to, is the purusharth of illusion. Illusory purusharth means that one has to take another birth. The purusharth of illusion implies another birth for a being.
I have drawn an analogy for you of how the stones originate, their journey, and where they end up. It is very much like the process of the human life in this world. There is no beginning for the avyavahar jivas (unnamed embodied souls): only infinity. But the origin of the process of human worldly life begins from here, just like the moment the stone falls into the river. Avyavahar rashi means that the embodied soul has not been given a name yet (embodied souls in an unnamed state). From the moment it attains a name, such as 'rose' or 'jasmine', or 'ant' etc., the embodied soul is said to have come into vyavahar rashi (an identified embodied soul). (From this point in time the living entity derives its name and becomes incorporated into the flow of the worldly life.) They naturally get pushed and shoved forward. There is a natural arrangement all the way until it becomes a 'kernel' (the end).