Aptavani 01

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation

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discharge gradually.
so that they too can meet a Gnani Purush. Only after meeting a Gnani Purush can one break free, otherwise one is doomed to wander between the four different life forms.
I-ness And My-ness Vikalp is 'I-ness' and sankalp is 'My-ness'. I am Chandubhai is I-ness and it is the biggest vikalp of all. Sankalp is my-ness, the belief associated with the sense of ownership, for example this is my wife, these are my children, this is my house and my car etc.
Birth in the human form is the only one that creates causes. The transmigration in to all the four life forms stems only from the human form and it is also only from the human form that liberation is possible.
The Self And The Non-self
Charge And Discharge : Cause And Effect
You are Brahma - the creator, and yet you sleep tucked under the bed sheets. You make various plans (create new causes). When you create new causes (charging new karma), you become Brahma, the creator, but the discharge of these causes (the effect) is not under your control. When these causes begin to discharge (give effect), you are under illusion and become confused and frustrated. When you create a cause, initially it is just a fleeting thought but once you become completely engulfed with it, a new cause is created, and when that cause materializes into a tangible event, it is called an effect. No one, absolutely no one, in this world can change the discharge (effect). If one could, one would never allow unpleasant things to happen to them, they would only let pleasant things occur. But discharge is under the control of another entity. It is under the control of vyavasthit (scientific circumstantial evidences). Vyavasthit rules exclusively and no one has any control over it. So be cautious when creating new causes. Once you acquire the Self, you will never be deluded. Once you meet a Gnani Purush, he will take your faith in the world and place it in the Supreme Soul in just one hour, and once he does this, you will remain as the Self. Once this happens, you will no longer be creating any new causes and your physical body that remains, will continue to
The entire world is trapped in trying to understand prakruti, the non-self. From time immemorial, people have been trying to explore the Self and the non-self, but it is not something that is easy to grasp. In the traditional kramic path, one is only able to understand the Self after completely knowing the non-self. The puzzle of the non-self and the Self is such that it cannot be solved even after countless cycles of birth and death. Whereas in the Akram path, when the Gnani Purush bestows his blessing upon you, you become the Self and thereafter you are able to completely know the non-self. What is more, the two will always remain separate. Even the mightiest are trapped in the labyrinth of the non-self; what can they do? How can you find a solution when you try to understand the non-self through being a nonself? The non-self is to be known after acquiring the Self. Only then can it's every facet be known.
What is non-self (prakruti)? Pra = excess and kruti= action done. An action, which is done through not being in one's natural state but in having gone away from one's natural state, is prakruti. Action done out of one's natural state is prakruti.
The non-self (prakruti) is female and the Self is male (purush). Lord Krishna told Arjun, "Become free from the three gunas of the prakruti". The three gunas inherent qualities) of the non-self are sattwa, rajas and tamas. Become a liberated 'purush by rising above the three gunas of the prakruti. If you remain in these qualities of the prakruti, you become subservient and weak.