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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The Gnani Uluminates the Siddhant Naturally
Questioner: When people talk about the Atma, are they referring to the life-instilled atma (pratishthit atma)?
Dadashri: Yes, they believe that the atma that has been instilled with life (pratishthit atma) is the Atma. However, that is a wrong belief. Now they do not know that, do they? They are carrying on, believing that the pratishthit atma, 'is itself my own Atma'. They move ahead, with this belief. To plod along by decreasing the subatomic particles (parmanu) of illusory attachment (moha) one by one, is the step-by-step path to liberation (the Kramic marg). In the step-by-step path to liberation, they call the, pratishthit atma (the atma which has been instilled with life) as the Atma, and here, in the Akram path (step-less marg), we call the fundamental (muda) Atma, the Atma. So, there is a difference in the vision (drashti) between the Kramic path and the Akram path. In the step-by-step path (Kramic marg), they are right in saying that the Atma is prone to suffering. “This suffering, and all these are the qualities and traits (gunas) of the atma', which is what the step-by-step path (Kramic marg) says; whereas here in the Akram path (stepless marg), we say that suffering and all that, lies in the lifeinstilled atma (pratishthit atma). In the step-by-step path (Kramic marg), that which we refer to as the life-instilled atma (pratishthit atma); they refer to as the worldly interactive atma (vyavahar atma), and it is this atma that interacts in the world, they believe as being the fundamental (muda) Atma. And this is what they believe they have to make still and steady (sthir), this is what they believe they have to make free of karma. So they believe that this is the atma that has been bound by karma, and it is this atma that needs to be freed of karma. But the fundamental (muda) Atma is not like that. The real (muda) Atma is free of karma. Except you are not aware of this, you need to attain this awareness.
What we are trying to tell you is that you do not have this