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except for God, and the Atma, you will then experience that. That would also mean that you would not want women, money and everything else. And you will get such an experience right here. When? In this very lifetime; even so, not in two or three months, but it will happen within one hour.
Questioner: And how will it be possible to remain constantly absorbed (tanmayakar) in, and one with the Atma afterward?
Dadashri: When a person takes Gnan here, and then follows 'our' Agnas (Five directives), he can remain in the Atma constantly. But all these worldly entanglements will not allow him to remain constantly in the Atma. Even you have worldly entanglements, do you not? Children will say, 'Father, give me my school fees.' Alas, you have the money at home. But would you not have to go out to cash the hundred rupee note? If one is not married, he would have work or a business. Therefore these are all worldly entanglements, and as long as these are there, it is not possible to remain constantly in the Atma. But when your intent towards the worldly entanglements decreases, and as you begin to understand that bliss lies in the Atma, then these worldly entanglements will begin to decrease. Thereafter you will be able to remain as the Atma.
Understanding the Word 'Shuddhatma'
Questioner: They say that the Atma is solid awareness of the eternal bliss (sat chit anand). Is it an imaginary idea (kalpana) or is it true?
Dadashri: Why? It is true. It is true that the Atma is solid awareness of the eternal bliss (sat chit anand). There is no imagination (kalpana) in that.
Questioner: What about the people who say that it is an imagination (kalpana)?
Dadashri: The ones who do the imaginings (kalpana),
