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long enough the answer will come to you intuitively, providing you look within. Instead people do not even bother looking for the right solution, they have no clue and yet they go around forcing and pressuring the prakruti.
If sugar is rationed on the market, the nature of the prakruti is such that it will become restless. It will become restless and keep goading you. "Let's go buy sugar. Let's go buy some sugar because it is going to be rationed." You can tell it that you will go when the rationing starts, but it will not concede. Prakruti is like a child or like an obstinate old man. As far as reasoning with it is concerned, it is like a child. You can talk to it, reason with it and it will understand, just as a child would. We make it understand by giving it treats and candies.
Questioner: In what sense do you mean the prakruti is like an old man?
Dadashri : It is like an old man from the perspective that it will not budge or give in no matter what challenges it has to face; it will remain firm and obstinate. And if it were to give in, it will do so in no time. 'We have seen this. If the prakruti were inanimate (jada) it would never let go; it would remain unperturbed, then it would be regarded as being vitarag (without feeling), but the prakruti has been touched by chetan (the Self). It is a mixture of both the animate and the inanimate (mishra chetan).
What is mishra chetan? All the subatomic particles (parmanus) of the prakruti are called mishrasa (mixed parmanus). When mishrasa release their effects and dissipate, these parmanus are called vishrasa (pure parmanus). With bhaav or intent, the pure parmanus becomes mixed again and this process (charging) is called prayogsha. (Charging parmanus are called prayogsha. Atoms ready to give effect and whilst giving effect, are called mishrasa. After discharge, atoms become pure and are called vishrasa). The inherent attribute of the parmanus of the prakruti have attained chetan bhaav due to its close
proximity of the Self and therefore it is amenable to explanations and internal conversations. If you speak with this tape recorder (inanimate object) or shout at it, is it going to understand?
Although people have not realized the Self, their life does go on does it not? That is because the prakruti is a mixture of the Self and matter (mishrachetan). Do some people who are very street-smart not get ripped off, sometimes? Why is that? I is because of the prakruti; it takes someone who knows how to reason with the prakruti.
Questioner : Sometimes, it does not work despite reasoning with them.
Dadashri : That means one does not know how to make them understand.
Questioner : Many times, despite reasoning with the prakruti, it does not come around and so I have to reprimand it. For example, the doctor has told me to eat only two puris (fried bread) but when they serve mango pulp with puris, the prakruti will want to eat three puris. At such a time it will not listen if I try to reason with it, and so I have to scold it. I cannot sweet-talk with it at that time; I have to be firm with it.
Dadashri : It is like this, the best approach is to explain things to it, but if that does not work, then you can reprimand it; but that is the second step. It is fine in matters of the body but where the mind is concerned, it is not good to reprimand it The body is inanimate so there is no problem there, but where the mind is concerned, you have to reason with it. It is also better to reason with the body if you know how. The body too listens to us.
Questioner : The more prakruti becomes natural the more easily it will agree and listen, is that so Dada?
Dadashri : Yes that is true. What do all these parmanus say? They are associated with the properties of the Self and so
