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Aptavani-4
The 'Charging Point' of Speech Questioner: If this is a ‘discharging tape', then how do we create a new 'tape'?
Dadashri: While you are speaking right now, a new “tape' is simultaneously being recorded. That 'tape' is created through your bhaav (inner intent). It is 'taped according to your bhaav. What is my bhaav when I am talking? If it is: 'I want to insult you’, then that is how it will be taped'. If it is: 'I want to respect you and act lovingly towards you', then it is 'taped in that way. So it gets 'taped' according to the inner intent (bhaav).
Questioner: Is it created anew when bhaav occurs?
Dadashri: Of course. When the bhaav occurs, a new tape is created. And you will not be able to change it, even if you try. This speech is not the property (dharma) of the pudgal (the non-Self complex). It is something aupcharik (not real). Therefore, the inner intents (bhaav) from the previous life; those that have passed, come into effect in the present, and that is how they are immediately “taped' and released as words. It all gets done “speedily. It is astonishing! The speech that comes out today, is not the muda-bhaav (charge), but the old bhaav. Gata-bhaav (past bhaav) is a 'discharge’ bhaav, and it is because of this that the speech comes out. Therefore, speech is the 'discharge of the discharge’. And the mind is a “pure” “discharge’ ‘Discharge' bhaav means 'lifeless' (nirjiva) bhaav.
Questioner: How did speech get 'taped in the first place?
Dadashri: The Atma encounters circumstances of subatomic particles (parmanus), and that is where ‘charging occurs. The Atma's presence, gives rise to vibrations of likedislike (bhaav-abhaav), and if ego enters into it, then those vibrations get 'taped'.
