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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(sankhyat) and the animals and plants (tiryancha); lower lifeform population is innumerable (asankhyat). Asankhyat (innumerable) means that it cannot be counted; you will run out of numbers. Even when they count over a billion, they can go on counting, but it will never end. That is called innumerable (asankhyat); it will not end even when you run out of numbers.
Human beings alone are numerable (sankhyat); you could count perhaps four or five billion, and that would be a good estimate. However, the animals and plants (tiryancha), are innumerable (asankhyat), and even the celestial beings (deva) are innumerable. The living beings in the infernal realm (nark gati) are innumerable; with the exception of human beings, all other living beings (jivas) in the worldly interaction (vyavahar) are innumerable (asankhyat).
The living entities of the unnamed state (avyavahar rashi) are infinite (anant), and even in the realm of Liberated Souls (Siddha gati) there are infinite liberated Souls (Siddhas). Infinite (anant), means beyond innumerable (asankhyat), limitless, neverending; so it would be futile to count them. You can try and count the numerable (sankhyat), but what do you do, when the innumerable (asankhyat), has no number (sankhya)? Ten million, a hundred million, a billion..., however much further you go on counting, this account (hisaab) will still not come to an end. That is why it has been categorized as innumerable (asankhyat); because it does not come into counting (sankhya) – it cannot be allocated a number!
This world has puzzled itself. Why is that? It is because these jivas (living beings) are forever moving in the flowing current of an eternal (anaadi) stream. Just like the flowing waters of the Narmada (river), these living entities (jivas) are constantly flowing along.
Matter (dravya), location (kshetra), time (kaad) and inner intent (bhaav) are constantly changing. Even their location keeps