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person does not have awareness of the Self, there is no such 'basement'; these new batteries' will continue to be charged. They will carry on discharging as well. So they are just batteries'. All three, run down and all three are getting charged. As long as the imposition of the wrong belief (aropit bhaav) of 'I am Chandubhai’ is there, the batteries just carry on charging, because of the ignorance of the Self. And when You have the awareness of, 'I am Shuddhatma,’ you no longer ‘charge any new batteries'. The old ones of course, will continue to ‘discharge’ for everyone; the Self-realized and the non-Selfrealized alike, as well as for the animals - they all will have batteries that “discharge'.
No effort is needed in this discharge’. Their nature is to discharge; therefore, they will continue to discharge on their own. Your hand will move on its own even if you decide you do not want to move it. That is because all this ‘machinery' is ‘discharging’. People however, try to alter the discharge’, now how can that be possible? At the very least, they can change the ‘charge’ in the ‘charging process. When the discharge' occurs according to a person's wishes, his ego will increase, because he feels that everything is going his way. But when it goes against what he wants, he will say, “God did this to me. My karmas are not good.” They utter all kinds of nonsense. It is ‘discharge' when it happens according to one's desires and it is also ‘discharge’ when it happens contrary to one's desires. It shows its nature ‘discharge’. Two kinds of things happen here - either you like it or you don't. For the world, this gives rise to attachment (raag) and abhorrence (dwesh) towards things. Attachment towards things one likes, and abhorrence towards what one dislikes. So the world persists through attachment, abhorrence and the ignorance (agnan) of 'I am Chandubhai’. Jainism calls it raag (attachment), dwesh (abhorrence) and agnan (ignorance of the Self) and Vedanta (Hindu scriptures) calls it mudd (impurities), vikshep (obstructed view; false projection) and agnan (ignorance of the Self).
