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same way, depending on whichever type of work you are doing, the adjectives have been given according to that. Just as you are one and the same person, but in one place you are papa, and in another you are professor. So even in this, an adjective has been ascribed according to the work being done.
One is an embodied soul (jivatma), as long as he believes that there is happiness (sukh) only in transient and perishable (vinashi) things. And when that belief comes to an end, and the belief that happiness lies only in the eternal, one has become the interim state Soul (antaratma). He that has become devoid of attachment and abhorrence (vitarag); that has no attachmentabhorrence (raag-dwesh) towards anyone, is considered the Absolute Soul (Parmatma). So who is the interim state of the Soul (antaratma; inner awakened Soul)? The answer would be that, he whose vision (drashti) is set on becoming devoid of attachment and abhorrence (vitarag), is the interim state Soul (antaratma). And whoever derives enjoyment from worldly, material happiness (bhautik sukh), and continues to have attachment and abhorrence (raag-dwesh), is the embodied soul (jivatma)! Did you understand all that?
Questioner: There are so many veils (avaran) of illusion
(maya)...
Dadashri: They are indeed all the veils of only illusion (maya's avaran)!
Questioner: It is because of these veils of illusion, that one is prevented from entering the interim state Soul (antaratma), or further still, make any progress even from the interim (antaratma) stage.
Dadashri: No, once you become the interim state Soul (antaratma), the progress will always continue. But in the case where progress does not occur, one has not become the interim state Soul (antaratma) at all. The interim state Soul (antaratma), becomes dependent-independent. If one is independent to a
