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Aptavani-1
Aptavani - 2
(When Dada says 'We'. He is referring to the Gnani Purush
and the fully enlightened Lord within Him)
The reality of this world What is this world all about? Who created the world? Why was it created? Who runs it?
The Christians say, 'God is the creator of this world'. The Muslims say, 'Allah made this world. The Hindus say, 'God made this world'. Many Jains too, say that God made this world. If someone created this world, then he would be called a creator, and a creator means a 'potter'. Which sons of God were going to remain bachelors that he had to create this world? When even factory owners delegate their work to their secretaries and sleep peacefully, why would God have to work so hard? God is not a laborer that he has to toil with his hands or fix people's marriages. God is not crazy that he would sit inside the womb of a water buffalo and create a bull! Besides if there were a creator of this world, people would have killed him a long time ago, because what kind of a person would create a world in which no one is happy? Indeed if such a being did exist, people would have gone looking for him and they would have searched him out and sorted him out. But how can they find any such being when he does not exist.
There is no creator of this world. The world is the puzzle itself. It has become puzzle some and that is why we call it a puzzle. The one who solves this puzzle attains the state of the
supreme Self (parmatma pad) and the one who cannot. becomes dissolved in the puzzle. Prominent sages, ascetics, monks, nuns, preceptors etc, have all become dissolved in this puzzle, just as sugar dissolves in water. Someone may ask, 'Where is the sugar in the water? Why can't we see it? We can assure him that there is sugar in the water but it is dissolved within the water. In the same way the soul (chetan) is present in everyone, but it is as a lifeless living element (nischetan chetan). When it becomes pure (shuddha chetan), then the puzzle will be solved. How alert are you of your own digestive processes?
A retired chief engineer of a big chemical company once came to me and told me, "Dada, my company would not run without me". 'We asked him, "What is so special about you that your company would not run without you?" He said, "I am very alert in my business. The work would stop if I did not go in for just one day." So 'We asked him, "When you eat some handvo (a baked Gujarati dish) at night, do you go to investigate within to see how it is being digested as you sleep? Do you check to see how much bile is secreted, how many other digestive enzymes are produced? And by the next morning, all the end products from that handvo will fall into their appropriate places; blood will go where the blood is, urine will be in its place and feces in its place. Do you go to check within how everything falls into place? How alert are you when it comes to your own body? When you can't do anything for your own self, what makes you think you can do anything in other matters? So many powerful kings have come and gone and yet their kingdoms continued, so what makes you think everything will stop in your absence? What alertness are you talking about? Even the Gnani's shoe is more alert than you are! It gets the constant attention of the devotees who keep it shiny. When you were born, did you have to worry whether your teeth will grow or not? Do you worry whether the sun will shine tomorrow or not?"
