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Aptavani-4
Questioner: So whatever we encounter has been residing inside us all along in a subtle form, and that is why we come across it on the outside?
Dadashri: Then who else is going to bring it together? If you have been served this much vegetable curry (shaak), don't you sometimes leave a couple of pieces of it behind on your plate? Why is that? Hey! Don't you even leave behind a single grain? You will be able to eat only what the account is within (what is coming to you as a karmic effect); everything else that remains is not yours.
Your good bhaav will yield good fruit and your bad bhaav will yield bad fruit. And when you do neither good nor bad bhaav and become Shuddhatma (the pure Soul), you cease to be the ‘doer'. Then the old bhaav will come and give its result and leave, and another new one does not come along. This is a science, not religion (dharma).
Religion is there to pave the way for the science. Otherwise, science is a science. It will lead you all the way to liberation.
Dravya-Bhaav Questioner: Which is higher, dravya (effect) or bhaav (cause; inner intent)?
Dadashri: Bhaav is the greatest, according to the Lord. Dravya (effect) can also be wrong. You do not have to see that, you just have to look at the bhaav.
It is very difficult to understand dravya-bhaav. When this top spins and its string unwinds, that is effect (dravya) and when it gets wound up again, that is cause (bhaav; intent).
The pure Soul does not have any kind of bhaav. The bhaav of pratishthit atma (relative soul) is considered bhaav. Both Gnanis (those who are Self-realized) and agnanis (those
