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part is sanctioned, the plan (yojana) is then submitted to materialize (rupak); that is when it is considered as being 'born’ and from then on, the planning continues to take shape. In the same way, this planning occurs first. So the planning takes place in one avatar (lifetime), it takes shape in the next avatar, and while it materializes, yet another plan (yojana) is being drawn up – this is how we should do it, this is what we want to put into it - so the construction continues in this way. Therefore this is an absolute irrefutable principle (siddhantik). Only the Living Gnani Can Illuminate the Truth
Now, this kind of information is not found in books. So how can a person change? What you will find in books are things like, you should put chilies in the kadhee (yoghurt soup), salt, turmeric, jaggery. But they do not tell you anything else, or how you are supposed to measure it. So one cannot really understand this from within, can he? Therefore, the entire world considers the relative non-Self; the atma that has been instilled with life (pratishthit atma) as the Atma, and they are trying to make it still. However, even that is not wrong; of course you have to make it still. Besides, by stilling it, one does experience some happiness (anand). However long the life-instilled atma (pratishthit atma) is made still (sthir); it becomes still at night in one's sleep anyway, but for as long as he is able to make it still during the daytime, he will feel contentment for that duration of time. But what is that contentment like? That when the stillness is broken, the person reverts to the way he was. Now if he could remember, at the same time, that the main (muda) Atma is itself steady and still (sthir), then, he himself can make the adjustment. But people do not know about the muda Atma at all. It is this life-instilled atma (pratishthit atma) that has come to be accepted as the real Atma, and that is really not the Atma. The life-instilled atma (pratishthit atma) is the non-Self body complex (pudgal), and there is no Atma (chetan) in it whatsoever.
