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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Aptavani-8
Dadashri: Death is like this: say a shirt is stitched, then it would mean that the shirt is born. Once it is born, then it is inevitable that it will die! Anything that is born is bound to die. And the Atma is without birth and death (ajanma-amar); it never dies. Whatever is born, will one day die, and because there is death, it will be born. That is why birth is joined to death. Where there is birth there is bound to be death!
Questioner: But what in fact is death?
Dadashri: When you sleep at night, where do you go? And in the morning, where do you come from?
Questioner: I do not know that.
Dadashri: That is how birth and death are. During the interim you are asleep, and when you are born, you wake up. From the time you die, until the time you are born, you are sleeping. "You' (the Self) are eternal; therefore birth and death do not happen for You! This birth and death is because of circumstances (avastha). There may only be one person, but does he not have three circumstances (avastha)? Does he not have his circumstance of childhood, his circumstance of youth, and then the circumstance of old age? They are all circumstances, but is 'he' (the Self), not the same in all three? Those are the body's circumstances (avastha). That birth and death is for the body; it is not the Atma's birth and death. The Atma does not have birth and death. Your own Self does not have birth or death.
Questioner: So why does death occur?
Dadashri: What it is, is that when you are born, there is the mind, the speech and the body; these three batteries become effective in the womb. So once the effect runs out, your account with those batteries ends, but until that happens, the batteries remain. Once they are completely finished, is when they call it death. But then for the next life, new batteries continue to charge