Aptavani Shreni 08

SR No.: 030038
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Aradhana Trust
Total Pages: 436
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 1 MB

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who was bound, you are really free', what would happen to the poor man? He would not be able to experience it and would only do the wrong things.
Does this bird have to do anything in front of a mirror? The moment the circumstance of a mirror comes before, ‘another bird' instantly comes in front of it. It will have exactly the same eyes, the beak etc., and whatever the bird on the outside does; the bird inside the mirror does exactly the same. In the same way, the Atma is surrounded by circumstances. Just as the circumstance (saiyog) of the sun casts a shadow, it is because of the circumstances that one sees one's own true nature (the Self) as being distorted. Only the One who has become free from all these circumstances, can free us, no one else can free us. If the one who he is himself bound, how can he free others?
Where did the Atma come from? It is only in the relative that I have had to say that the Atma is in the path of evolution (samsaran marg). On the path, it encounters all kinds of circumstances (saiyogo), and it is because of the pressure from these circumstances, that the knowledge has become vibhavik (wrong knowledge, false attribution, 'I am Chandubhai'). The Atma has done nothing else. Because the knowledge has become vibhavik, whatever intent (bhaav) arose, that is how the body became molded. The Atma did not have to do anything in it. So then, whatever one imagines, one becomes; one becomes whatever one imagines, and there lies the confusion! Then everything pans out as per natural laws; it is now regulated by the laws of vyavasthit. Thereafter the cycle of the battery (the charging of mind, speech and body) from battery, battery from battery, carries on. Only when the Gnani Purush releases you from the battery, can freedom be attained. When he separates the three batteries of the mind, speech and body from you, no more such batteries will be charged, and the old batteries will go on discharging