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then you can hit it with a hunter and tell it to move, then it will. All the bad habits that you have acquired from countless past lives are your obstacles and that is why the prakruti has taken control. The Self is not like that. However the prakruti itself is saying, "God please take charge", but because people do not understand, they give prakruti the upper hand.
Even the most expensive well-bred horse will stop dead in its tracks upon seeing a green cloth covering a grave. It will refuse to move and disregard all the prodding from the master: This sudden break within is an atkan, an inner obstruction. This verily is the intense temptation of the devil' within. One will go that direction knowing well that it is wrong and harmful. People too have also developed such strong inner obstruction (atkan) like the horse. They get stuck in situations in life. One will have to overcome this inner blockade, will he not?
You should not let the prakruti have the upper hand, it should not even have an option. Instead, you should take charge and rule with ease.
If someone tells 'us' to go to the final station (death), then 'we' are ready, and if they say, "Let's go to a wedding", then 'we' are ready. Prakruti should be kept ready. Instead, people waste away hours contemplating not to do a certain task, but end up doing it anyway because they have no choice. It is better to become natural and spontaneous. Vyavasthit, scientific circumstantial evidence will not spare anyone, so become spontaneous and natural. Kavi has written:
'Atkan thi latkan, latkan thi bhatkan Atkan will destroy one's current life, and the effects lead to
countless wandering and suffering in future lives. Bhatkan ni chhatkan par chhanto charan-raj kan. The only way to escape from this wandering is to
surrender at the feet of the Gnani Purush.'
Once You (the Self) identify your atkan, it starts disintegrating gradually. The prakruti is amazing, but one does not know how to extract right work out of it. Instead, one becomes the prakruti, which is why when the 'prakruti horse' runs in a certain direction; he too run with it. Instead why not take the reigns in your hands and then you can roam wherever you want with ease.
The prakruti is orderly and regular (niyamit). The mind does not have any order or regularity (aniyamit). A person steals a wallet and gets thirty rupees from it. He gives five rupees to a leper and the remaining twenty-five to his sister. This is what the mind is like. The nature of the mind is such that one moment it steals and the next it gives to charity. It is contradictory in nature but prakruti is without contradiction and predictable. If you can understand prakruti, you will be able to control it. So you must try to understand it completely
There is no problem if prakruti does things within the social norms. For example people will not condemn you if you eat snacks and drink tea but there is a problem if the actions of your prakruti are not accepted by society. If You (the Self) keep 'seeing' such a prakruti, it will weaken. The more you observe it, the more it will dissolve.
If a man comes to fight with you and he has a knife, if you make an eye contact with him, he will become weak. If you keep looking into his eyes, he will go away and not return. If he is strong and your energy weakens against him, he will overpower you. But here, we have the divine eyes (divyachakshu, the vision of the Self). When even ordinary eyes can overpower the other person, what can you not accomplish with your divine eyes? The divine eyes can dissolve the prakruti!
There is neither a restriction nor an order for anyone to 'go' to moksha, but one must become aware of his own Self.
