Aptavani 01

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

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The souls that are in an unidentifiable state (avyavahar rashi) always remain with the pratishthit soul. These are souls (ivas), which have not yet been identified and given names (categorized). When a soul attains a manifested state (vyvahar Rashi), it is given an identity and a name and thereafter begins it's vyavasthit (cosmic progression).
The inner psychic instrument (antahkaran) belongs to the pratishthit atma but it is distinct from it. The pratishthit atma is distinct from the mind, intellect, chit and ego. When the mind wants to do something and the pratishthit atma says no, it will not get done. Intention (bhaav) belongs to pratishthit atma; the pure Soul (Shuddhatma) is just an Observer and the Knower of these. Desire that arises within, calls for the working of the pratishthit soul. The Pure Soul is merely the Knower and the Observer of whether the pratishthit soul becomes one with the mind or not. Even a person without Self-realization, with yoga, derives certain powers by keeping pratishthit atma and the mind separate.
After acquiring Self-realization, you stop doing pratishtha (false projection). Your worldly life continues because of previously done pratishtha. After Self-realization there is no ego (charging ego) in the words you utter. It is indeed a wonder that new 'creations' cease to take place. If pratishtha is halted even for just one lifetime, it is a great achievement. What is the difference between the pratishthit atma of a Gnani and that of an agnani (person without Gnan)? The 'T' in a Gnani refers to only the Pure Self and it means only for the pure Self whereas the 'I' in the agnani person refers only to the pratishthit atma. For the Gnani, the Knower that knows everything as the non-self is the pure Soul. The Gnani knows even pratishthit atma to be the non-Self. But in the one with agnan (ignorance of the real Self), the knower of the non-self is the pratishthit soul.
Questioner : The power (chetan) used in the worldly life, is it that of the pure Soul?
Dadashri : That power belongs to the pratishthit atma. Nothing of the pure Self is spent or used up. A battery charger will charge the batteries without losing its own power. No matter what actions these life forms carry out or whatever birth they take, the 'gold' (Soul) within remains the same, only the labor of making the ornament goes to waste. The labor of creating this buffalo is what goes to waste. Countless life times have been spent in hell, but even then the gold within has not become tainted, it has remained one hundred percent gold. The creation and dissolution is that of the pratishthit soul (aka mishra chetan), the charging and discharging is of the mishra chetan and not of the pure Soul.
Even the pratishtha (ceremonious installation of an idol) done in a stone idol gives benefit to people for a long time, does it not? How powerful is the ritual of pratishtha! It has enough power to make a piece of iron fly! All these scientific inventions are of the pratishthit soul. When the pratishthit soul possesses so much power, how can we even begin to speak of the infinite powers of the pure Soul (Shuddhatma)? The Soul has so much power, that if it were to do pratishta in a wall, the wall would talk!
Even the pratishthit soul is so pure that it has no thoughts. Thoughts arise in the mind. When a tuber of the mind sprouts, it brings about a state of thinking. Thoughts about religion or thoughts about stealing that arise are really tubers of the mind. If the pratishthit soul had the ability to think, the intellect would no longer remain. Everything would then become like a computer. The internal activities that the pratishthit soul performs are the activities of the inner psychic instrument and that is what will manifest exactly on the outside. Those who learn how to see the