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rapture. No one cares about Bhagwan. That Bhagwan tells me everyday, ‘No one cares about me.' Some are absorbed with their tea, some are obsessed with their drugs, someone is always obsessed with something, some are intoxicated with alcohol, some are obsessed with their wives, then there are those who are obsessed with money - Alas the entire world is wallowing in some form of absorption! Say Shuddhatma - Pure Soul, for Purity to
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Questioner: Why do you say pure Soul (Shuddhatma)? Why not just say Atma, Soul? Is the Atma, not chetan (Self) as well?
Dadashri: Shuddhatma means pure Soul (shuddha chetan). The reason for calling it pure (shuddha) is because, before one used to think, ‘I am a sinner, I am worthless, I am like this, I am like that.' All those preconceived ideas that one had about himself, have all been erased. If one just said soul (Atma), instead of pure Soul (Shuddhatma), he would lose the awareness of his own purity (shuddhata); his awareness of being untainted and pristine (nirlepta) would disappear.
Questioner: So what is the true meaning (marma) of Shuddhatma?
Dadashri: The true meaning of pure Soul (Shuddhatma) is that it is detached (asanga); it cannot be tainted (nirlep; unsmaerable); whereas the atma (the relative self) is not like that. The atma has been tainted, and the Shuddhatma is the Absolute Soul (Parmatma). Do people of all religions not say, ‘My Soul is sinful’? And even then, the Shuddhatma does not have any problem.
The pure Soul (Shuddhatma) itself indicates, ‘Now we have become unsmearable (nirlep); all our sins are gone.' So it is because of shuddha upayog (pure applied awareness of the
