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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does everything; it is an illusory (bhrant) atma. The real Atma itself is the Absolute Soul (Parmatma)! When you come to know it, your work will get done; otherwise, until then you will not get your work done.
Now if you believe that the mechanical atma is your own Atma, then when will you come to your senses? That is precisely why I say that the world has never known what the Atma really is. Moreover, what is not Atma, is precisely where they attribute: this, that is thinking is the Atma; that is moving, walking, talking, doing, jumping, laughing, singing, eating, drinking, earning, fighting, sleeping - is all Atma!
Doing introspective meditation (samayik), repeating mantra (japa), penance (tapa), religious meditation (dharma dhyan), is Atma – that is what people say, and so what I would say to that is – there is absolutely no Atma there at all. Now if you have so many huge errors in the calculation alone, then would you ever be able to come up with a daily balance?
So the businesses they run, the daughters they marry off, the sons they get married, is all done by the mechanical atma, while the achad (still) Atma, just sees it all. They both have different natures (dharma). This mechanical atma may appear as though it is alive; in your mind it may seem to you that it is indeed chetan, but in truth, it is not chetan.
In the Vitarags' Vision, the Atma Is...
What you see, is all machinery; it is not the Atma. That which others call Atma, is not what 'we' (the Gnani Purush) call Atma. Even the Vitarags - do not call it Atma. The Vitarags called the real Atma (the Self), Atma; whereas these people call everything that is non-Self (anatma), as Atma. If you went and asked all of them, “Sir, have you yet to attain Self-realization (Atmagnan)?' and the person would reply, 'Of course, I will have to know Self-realization!' So you would say, 'Is it not the