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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Self), and not budge from there afterward, even for a moment. Constantly in the Atma, twenty-four hours in complete awareness (jagruti)! Here, the entire world sleeps with eyes open. We are only excluding the real thinkers from this; however the rest of the world is sleeping with its eyes open.
Even the Word Is Temporary
Questioner: Now word (shabda) is eternal (nitya), but many say that word is transitory (anitya), so which one is true?
Dadashri: Word (shabda) is transient (anitya). Questioner: Some say that word is eternal.
Dadashri: However many are saying so; nevertheless I will give you the truth once and for all. And whatever they tell us after that is fine; there is no insistence (aagraha) on our part.
Even the truth (satya) that there is in the world, is not truth; even it is untruth (asatya). Truth is always eternal (avinashi), and of its own nature (swabhavik). And this word (shabda) is not natural. Words come out when there is friction. Therefore, words are circumstance. They happen due to two or three circumstances, and therefore it is not a natural thing.
Questioner: What is said about words being transient (anitya), is correct. Now Veda is composed of words, and yet the Veda is believed to be eternal (nitya).
Dadashri: There is nothing in those accepted beliefs. What would you call eternal (nitya)? It is something which is always eternal (avinashi), and which is itself in an eternal form (vastu swaroop). There is no change in it; it only has one single nature (swabhav), and that nature never changes. The Atma is eternal (avinashi). This element of space (aakash tattva) is eternal (avinashi).
The non-Self complex (pudgal), this element of subatomic