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moths. Then they become organism with four senses (charindriya). And those with the five-sensed living beings (panchindriya) have exposed the five senses, as that much of the covering has been unveiled. Nevertheless, the God (Atma; Self) within each and every single one is in a fully complete form, except that the coverings are still there. When the Self becomes completely unveiled, then you yourself are the Parmatma (absolute Self). Anything that is divisible has fragments. The Atma is indivisible. Its infinite locations (pradesh) are indivisible in form.
Without being awakened (jagruti), one cannot become aware of one's Self. When a person becomes fully awakened, he becomes aware of the Self (Shuddhatma), and through that awareness comes the realization that he himself is God (Ishwar; Parmatma), in every sense of the word. He will begin to experience this and in all his actions that follow thereafter, there will be no pain (dukh) whatsoever.
Is God Omnipresent? Dadashri: Where does God live? Questioner: God is omnipresent. He is in every grain.
Dadashri: Then there is no need to go looking for him, is there? So if God is everywhere, then where would you go to the toilet? If God is everywhere, then there is no such distinction between animate (chetan) and inanimate (jada), is there? So it is not like that. There is animate and there is inanimate. If all there are just grains of wheat, then what is there left to winnow (separate)? If you can tell what the wheat is, then you will be able to pick out the pieces of grit from it. And you will even manage the winnowing if you can recognize what the pieces of grit are. In the same way, if you know the Self; you will know the non-Self. And even if you recognize the non-Self, then you will know the Self. But when people keep saying that God is everywhere, then why bother to seek him?
