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Now if you go in front of a mirror, do you have to tell the mirror to show you your face? You do not have to say anything, do you? Why is that? Even then, does it not show you your exact face? Does it not show the slightest defects? Now because the mirror gets used everyday, it is not valued. However, it is worth understanding its great value.
Right now, are you able to see your shadow, inside your home? No. But when you go out into the streets, you will see your shadow. So when you turn this way, there will be a shadow, and when you turn that way, there will be a shadow. How long does that shadow take to form? So therefore, this whole world is scientific circumstantial evidence. Nothing has happened and nothing has been made. The world is nothing but scientific circumstantial evidence. Bhagwan has not had to do anything in all this. Even this mind-speech-body complex (prakruti) that has come about is a result of scientific circumstantial evidence; and the prakruti is effective. This mind-speech-body is effective and it is its effectiveness which affects the Atma. That is because the belief that one has, is a wrong belief. The Gnani Purush changes that wrong belief, and thereafter, one no longer feels all these effects. Only Ignorance Influences the Entire Worldly
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Questioner: If the Soul (chetan) becomes pure (shuddha), does it ever have to come back?
Dadashri: It never has to come back. Once it attains purity, it means that the ego (ahamkar) has gone, and so it never has to return. As long as the ego is there, it sows the seed of, 'I did it, and from that, the ego arises again. As long as one believes, 'I did this', the ego (ahamkar) will arise again.
Questioner: So the Atma must have been impure to begin with?
