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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changing. So if in the past life, we were at the tenth milestone, in this lifetime, we come to the eleventh milestone. Now on the tenth milestone, there were wonderful gardens and wonderful people, and having seen all that, when we get to the eleventh milestone, we encounter desert. So you think to yourself, 'How on earth can I live like this?' You recall all that you had seen at the tenth milestone. You are in a predicament because of your internal conflict. All you keep feeling is, 'this is terrible, this is terrible'. The knowledge of today is what is bothering you within. Is that not where all the conflict stems from? Until you attain Atmagnan (Self-realization), the conflict will continually go on and on.
So the world will remain the way it is forever. And from it, as a rule, the living beings will constantly be going to final liberation (moksha).
Ultimately the Solution Will Come Through the Gnani
Questioner: Once a living entity (jiva) comes into a state where it has an identity (vyavahar rashi) and enters life in the world, is it bound to go to final liberation (moksha)? So even the time would have been decided, that after so many births, it will go to final liberation? Would the timing of going to final liberation be already determined?
Dadashri: The living entity (jiva) is ready to go to final liberation (moksha) from the time it enters into the named state (vyavahar rashi).
Questioner: But will its time be decided?
Dadashri: The time is indeed decided, but after coming into the human life-form, provided one does not do egoism (ahamkar), then the time is definite. If he does egoism, he again falls from there, and then there is no telling what happens from there on. Once he turns backward into egoism (ahamkar), there