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location; identifying the relative self as the real Self) and 'this is all mine' is attachment. 'I am not this' and 'this is not mine' is without attachment. The association with attachment is that of the pratishthit atma and the Self is without any attachment. The pure 'I' never moves from its location. 'I am Chandulal' and 'this body is mine', is pratishthit atma.
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All the activities are done by the pratishthit atma. The pure Self does not do anything. All movement, walking, eating. etc., are the attributes of the non-Self and not of the Self. The Self does not sleep during the day or the night. It is the nonSelf that sleeps. The one that performs the actions needs the rest and therefore sleeps. The Self does nothing so why would it need any rest? Who seeks rest? It is the one who is interested in rest, the pratisthit atma. All these activities are of the pratishthit atma. Who knows whether the pratisthit atma had sound sleep or not? The pure Self. The Self is the Knower and the Seer of the pratisthit atma and it never interferes in any activities of the pratisthit atma. All interference is done by the pratisthita atma. What the pratisthit atma knows is called gneya (object to be known) and the one that knows the pratisthit atma is the gnata, the Knower, the pure Self (Shuddhatma). Why does the pratisthit atma meddle or interfere? It meddles because it is interested in the worldly life. The Shuddhatma has no such interest; it is the Knower and the Seer and is the abode of eternal bliss. The Self illuminates the Self and the non-Self. The pratisthit atma illuminates the non-Self only. The Self Sees and Knows the pratisthit atma. Therefore the pratisthit atma is gneya (the known; object) and the Self is the Knower (the Gnata). The relation between Shuddhatma and pratisthit atma is only that of the Knower and the known.
A non-Self-realized (agnani) person may then ask who endures the suffering. He himself endures suffering. Is he not the soul? He is the soul but he is the pratisthit soul. He has not
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Aptavani-1 known or recognized the Real Soul, the original Soul, the Pure Self (shuddhatma), so how can he be called the Pure Soul? Yes, if you know and recognize the shuddhatma (achieved SelfRealzation) and constantly remain in that state (of awareness of your real identity) then you are Shuddhatma; but if you are Chandulal and if this body is yours, then you are the pratisthit atma. You did the pratistha (installation) of the ego and attachment and therefore you are the pratisthit atma.
The Japanese manufactured a car, which would run like a wind up toy. It was wound such that it would run five miles. Four people (mind, intellect, chit and ego) sat in the car. The winder is the designer of the car himself. They go to meet a friend. They hardly travel a mile or so and on the way they meet the person they were going to see. He calls out to them and asks them to stop. But how can they stop when the car was programmed to stop only after five miles?
Questioner: They would have to make a 'U' turn.
Dadashri : It is a matter of understanding. The driver is told to stop, he cannot, he has no way to do so, because of past life's programming. The machinery within (antahkaran) keeps turning round and round creating havoc because of the conflict.
Such is this world. Once the winding occurs, the driver too has to keep going. You yourself have done the pratishtha (charged karma and set things in motion) but during the discharge (of karma), you become trapped.
It is the pratishthit atma that experiences through the five senses. The one who hears, sees, feels touch, and smells etc. is the pratishthit atma. The one that Knows and Sees what the pratisthit atma experiences through the five senses is the shuddhatma (pure Self). The knowledge acquired through the senses is that of the pratisthit atma; and the knowledge
