Aptavani 02

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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over the mind. How can you have such a prabhav over your mind when you use its help to do something wrong or improper? As far as possible, your mind, your chit, your intellect and your ego should have the impression that you have to be respected and listened to. They must not treat you like a thief. But if you want to do something wrong and you enlist the help of the mind, it will know that you are dishonest. If you have the respect of people in your home, are they likely to go against you?
Questioner : No.
Dadashri : In the same way, your mind should have a good impression of you, it should respect you. Before you utter even a word, your mind, chit, intellect and ego should be ready and completely attentive to you, just as a cobra is the minute it hears a flute. Such should be your state, aura, influence and impression. The mind, chit, intellect and ego are made up of parmanus, they too need some ease and relief and they will when you have this prabhav and respect from them. But if you yourself make them do wrong, you lose that prabhav.
Everything you do, eating, drinking, etc., is all prakruti. There is the Self and the non-self. Prakruti is in between the two. It may appear to be animate, but really it is inanimate; it is in a mixture form of the animate and the inanimate. It is not truly the Self. Ascetics and sages believe it to be the Soul because it appears as such. But it is not the Soul. The Soul is beyond that. When you encounter a Gnani Purush, the omniscient (sarvagnya) and He gives you the Self in your hand, only then is the Self attained. But otherwise, you cannot get rid of anger, pride, illusion and greed through what you believe to be the Soul.
This sentence is worth understanding in detail: "Not a single quality of the prakruti is there in the pure Soul and not a single quality of the pure Soul is there in the prakruti."
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Powerful Goddesses of natural prakruti
Ambamata, Durgadevi and such other, are goddesses who represent naturalness of prakruti. If the prakruti becomes natural, then the self will become natural or if the self (soul) becomes natural, then the prakruti will become natural. 'You' should make the prakruti do bhakti (devotional activity) of these goddesses. You as the Self should not be doing the bhakti but make 'Chandulal', the relative self do their bhakti, only then will the prakruti become natural.
In India, they have many different names for Mataji (mother goddess). How vast this science must be! Just imagine how extensive their research must have been that they discovered goddesses Ambamata (also known as Ambika), Saraswatidevi and Lakshmidevi. This science made tremendous progress, but now it is nowhere to be found; nowadays people do not know how to do darshan of these goddesses.
Goddess Ambika is adhyashakti (original energy force). She grants energy to the prakruti. Prakruti becomes powerful and energized by worshipping her. Goddess Ambika can destroy one's worldly obstacles, but liberation can only be attained through Gnan. The four goddesses, Ambika, Bahucharama, Kadikama (or Kalika) and Bhadrakalima are present if you know how to do their darshan. These goddesses cannot destroy one's sins, but they give energy to the prakruti.
Goddess Ambika gives 'us' so much protection. There is a presence of the Devas (celestial Gods) all around 'us' (Dada the Gnani Purush and the Lord within). 'We' do not take any steps without first consulting them. The grace of all the Devas