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down, even then not a single parmanu (subatomic particle) will be gained or lost! Everything will stay the same.
Questioner: So how did the new ones appear? Has not the population of humans increased?
Dadashri: Those that decreased by numbers in the animal life-form, have all come into the human life-form. But they have also come here with a return ticket. They have come with a return ticket from wherever they have come. If we ask, “But what will you do, once you are here?' And they will say, 'We will enjoy everything that belongs to others; anything that we have no right to. We will have houses built, roads built, bridges built, and after all the hard work, we will die. However many there were, are all heading back to where they came from! Those who corrupt things are only gaining marks to return back there. When they earn so many marks, they go back there again. The Puzzle of the Creation and Dissolution
of the World Questioner: When will God wind up this living world? And when he does, what sort of state will it be in then?
Dadashri: God does not have the power (shakti) to wind up this world. On the contrary, God himself is trapped in this world, and keeps trying to break free! And when the Gnani Purush shows the way, he can get out of it. No one in this world has the energy to wrap up the world.
Therefore God has not created this world. There is no such thing like creator God in this world; this is only scientific circumstantial evidence. And, the world is the puzzle itself.” It has become itself puzzled. How it has become puzzled, is what 'we' (Gnani), having seen it, are telling you. When those elements all come together like this, this (the illusion; the ego) arises from two of the elements. And through Gnan, it can be destroyed.
It is because of ignorance (agnan), that this has come