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already been filled with the right amount of petrol (fuel), so it will carry on working, and you will not have to put any more fuel into it; you will not have to do anything. You have to keep seeing this mechanical (thing). To See and to Know is the nature (swabhav) of the Atma.
Questioner: Do we not have to do anything?
Dadashri: You do not have to do a thing. Wherever you have to do anything, that itself is mechanical atma!
That is why people keep chasing after the mechanical atma. They even proclaim, “This is the Atma! Who else, other than the Atma can do all this? That is what they know. This is all really happening because of the presence of the Atma, and its own real guna (properties; qualities; traits) remain in their own nature (swabhav). But because of the wrong belief, a nonSelf complex (prakruti) with different properties (vyatirek guna) has arisen, and everything is then run by the prakruti! But the wrong belief stays the same; “I am this, and I am that.' A person has no concept of the real thing. That is because from birth, he receives those kinds of impressions (sanskar). First they call him a baby, then he is given a name. Once the name is given, it is with that name that he becomes known as nephew, paternal uncle, maternal uncle, and this is how all impressions of terrible ignorance (agnanta) are instilled.
The worldly life (sansar) means to plunge deeper and deeper into ignorance (agnanta). If a person were a Gnani in his past life, even he would hear the echoes of ignorance (agnanta), again in this life. But when the karma unfolds again, he would regain awareness (jagruti). But the very rule of this worldly life is that people will fit a person with wrong belief.
If a man is not married, we may ask him, 'Do you have a wife?' and he would say, 'No. I have not been married.' But when he marries, he then becomes a husband. When the wife dies, he
