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Aptavani-8
Dadashri: No, there is no need for energy (shakti) in this. Once you know this science, the puzzle will be solved.
The entire world is made up of six eternal elements (tattva). Tattva means that they are eternal, and those eternal elements perpetually maintain their own nature (swabhav). But these elements (tattva) interact around each other, which is why we see all this varied display.
Questioner: What are these six eternal elements (tattva)?
Dadashri: One is chetan (the Self). The second is jada (matter; non-Self), which has form (roopi). The chetan tattva is invisible (aroopi). The third is one that gives motion to jada (matter) and chetan (Self), and it is called the element of motion or momentum (gatisahayak tattva). Now if only the motion element were there, everything would be in constant motion! So to make jada and chetan still, there is the element of inertia or immobility (sthitisahayak tattva), which keeps a body at rest! That makes four of the elements (tattva); the fifth is space (aakash), and the sixth is the element of time (kaad)! It is because of these six elements that the world has arisen. All the six elements are eternal.
Nature's Mysterious Planning
This world runs naturally. Everything is in its own natural state (swabhav), and nothing has ever left its own nature. Only, the worldly interaction (vyavahar) which is the entire path of evolution (samsaran marg), and it is in this path of evolution, that all these life-forms (jiva) have entered. So three divisions have been made: first the life-form (jiva) that has no identity (avyavahar rashi); it is awaiting entry into the worldly life; second, the life-form that has identity (vyavahar rashi) and enters the worldly life; and the third is the ultimate liberation of the Atma in Siddha kshetra (realm of all Liberated Souls).
The life-forms (jiva) that exist without identity (avyavahar
