Aptavani 01

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

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A person will say, 'today I did four samayiks and pratikraman and read the scripture for two hours.' The fool! The prakruti makes him do it and he claims that he is doing it, and if he truly is the one doing the samayik, let him try doing it the next day. I could not do samayik today', he will say, but I did it yesterday.' What a great contradiction between these two statements! If you really are the doer, then you can never say that 'I can't do it'. The very meaning of 'I can't do it proves that you are not the doer. The whole world is trapped in this wrong belief. Prakruti makes a person renounce and it is also prakruti that makes him acquire. Even the practice of brahmacharya (celibacy) is forced upon one by one's prakruti and yet he claims he is practicing celibacy. What a contradiction.
to as having no attributes? If you call it so, you will never acquire the Self because the Self is not separate from its own attributes. A thing has within it, its own intrinsic qualities, so in order to know the thing, by knowing its qualities; you will come to understand it. For example, if you want to know gold, then if you know the qualities of gold, you will come to know it; gold is never separate from its inherent qualities. A flower and its fragrance can never be separate. You can recognize a flower from its fragrance. In the same token, you can know the Self only through its attributes. That is the only thing you need to know - the Soul. You have come to know the attributes of the prakruti for countless lifetimes but even then you have made no progress and the puzzle remains unsolved. All the worldly religions are considered religions of the prakruti; they are religions of the body. The Supreme religion is the religion of the Self; that is the Real religion.
Dualities such as attachment and abhorrence, kindness and cruelty, greed and benevolence, truth and false are all qualities of the prakruti, and the Self is beyond all duality.
The Self: With And Without Attributes
Many people say that God is without any attributes. You foolish people! Why do you slander God in this way? They say that a mad person has no attributes. Madness is an attribute of one kind so how can one say that a mad person is without any attributes? It means that by saying the Soul is without attributes, is the same as saying the Soul is worse than a mad person; it is like saying that the Soul is inanimate. The Self is neither inanimate nor is it void of any attributes. It too has its inherent qualities. By saying that God (Soul) has no qualities, people embark on the wrong path. Come to me and I will give you the correct understanding. From the perspective of prakruti's attributes, the Self is without any attributes, and from its own perspective, the Self is full of attributes. These attributes are infinite : infinite knowledge, infinite vision, infinite energy and it is also an abode of infinite bliss. How can it ever be referred
Bathing the body, feeding it, pampering it, making it fast is all religion of the prakruti. This religion has no substance and you cannot depend on it because it is not under your control. It is controlled by some other power. The prakruti is such that one person will have diarrhea without taking a purgative and another will have constipation without taking a medicine for constipation. That is prakruti!
Worshipping Prakruti : Worshipping Purush
The worship that goes on in this world is worship of attributes of prakruti. These attributes do not have any permanent existence; these attributes are illusionary. The prakrutic attributes are dependent on the three humors of the body : mucous, bile and air (kapha, pitta and vatta respectively). The qualities or attributes of the Self are independent whereas the attributes of the prakruti are governed by other factors, but this only becomes evident when one becomes delirious or demented. Everywhere