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Aptavani-8
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When the Vision Becomes Pure, It Becomes
Absorbed in the Pure
One is an atma that has been instilled with life (pratishthit atma), and the other is the real Atma. The life-instilled atma (pratishthit atma) is a mechanical atma. It can only survive when you eat and drink, and it will stop if you stop breathing. In whatever the life-instilled atma does, when we say, 'I am doing it', that is the egoism (ahamkar) that we do, and so another lifeinstilled atma (pratishthit atma) for the next life is constructed.
The fact is, nothing has happened to the original (muda) real Atma. Others have given you this gift of ignorance (agnan), so all the impressions have cropped up: as soon as he is born. they start calling him 'Chandu, Chandu'. Now that child does not understand what they are doing, does he? But these people keep endowing him with these mental impressions (sanskar). So, then he starts believing that 'I am Chandu.' And when he grows up he begins to say, “this is my paternal uncle (kaka) and this is my maternal uncle (mama).' This is how all this ignorance (agnan) is gifted to him, so the illusion (bhranti) arises.
What happens here, is that one of the Atma's energies (shakti) becomes covered; the energy (shakti) called vision (darshan) gets covered up. And because the energy called vision (darshan) gets covered, all this comes about. When that vision is restored again, when it becomes enlightened (samyak), one again returns to his original form (muda swaroop). This vision has become deluded (mithya), and that is why he believes that happiness (sukh) lies in worldly things; therefore when that vision is put right, even the belief in worldly happiness (sukh) disappears. There is nothing else of significance that has been spoiled. Only the vision (darshan) has been spoiled, only the sight (drashti) has been spoiled. “We change that sight for you.
Questioner: So is it just illusion (bhranti) that has happened to the Atma?
