Aptavani 02

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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Aptavani-2
Questioner: Because there are three qualities (gunas).
Dadashri : There is no individual by the name of Brahma, Vishnu or Mahesh. These names represent the three natural attributes (gunas). In the process of learning about the three gunas, people misused the information and hence created these three idols. What was meant to be said was that we need to get rid of these three gunas of the prakruti (characteristics traits of the complex of the non-self) in order to become pure.
Questioner: By getting rid of these three gunas?
Dadashri : Yes. Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh are symbolic representations of the three gunas and you have to transcend them. Bliss exists within you but why can you not find it? You cannot experience it because of obstacles. Who created these obstacles? Did God create them? No, you yourself created the obstacles. And these obstacles are such that even when happiness comes to you, they will not let you experience it. Otherwise, you are the supreme Lord, but alas you have created the obstacles, no one else. Only you have created whatever suffering you have to experience. If there were someone else who was responsible for creating all the suffering people would have caught him and destroyed him by now! Not Yamraj (God of Death) but Niyamraj (Natural
Law) Yamraj terrifies many people. How do people depict Yamraj? They portray him with long horns, large fang-like teeth riding a buffalo. If that does not terrify people, then what else would? When a dog howls, people say Jamra is coming.' Meaning the God of Death is approaching. You fools! There is not even an insect called Jamra. This Yamraj people refer to is really an occurring of a precise natural circumstance. Everything in this world runs precisely in a definite scientific manner. Death comes as dictated by natural laws. Now, will you have anything to fear when 'We' tell you that Yamraj is the God of natural laws?
Foundation on which the world functions
What is the beginning of this world? What is the foundation that supports the starting point of this world? This is a very deep and a mysterious puzzle about the world. Today the truth of the origin of the world is being disclosed to the world through this medium of Dadashri.
Pratishthit Atma (false projection of one's identity, the relative self, the belief, 'Tam Chandulal') is the main foundation and the origin of the world.
What is the action that continues to perpetuate the dependency of the worldly being (adhikaran kriya)? It is the ignorance (agnan) of one's real identity (the Self). Ignorance of one's Self is the force and power behind these actions. The one who says 'I am Chandulal' believes that to be the case and this belief is in his action as well. This is the illusion that verily perpetuates the worldly life. This is the adhikaran kriya of the entire world. One projects and establishes the belief 'I am Chandulal' in a place where one is really not. And hence he acts and behaves according to this false projection (aropit bhaav). and furthermore he believes that he is the doer in all that he does. This false belief is the adhikaran kriya In other words the projection 'I am Chandulal', 'this is my body. I am the doer in all that is taking place' is the pratishtha. The pratishthit atma of this life is the result and creation of karmas and projection done in the previous life. Now in this life, as the pratishthit atma discharges due to the prevailing illusion of one's real identity, the adhikaran kriya continues and as a result a new pratishthit atma for the coming life is created. Whatever is charged will inevitably discharge. No one, absolutely no one can make a slightest