Aptavani Shreni 08

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Aradhana Trust

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one end of the Atma is here, while the other end can be somewhere in Punjab (province). How is that? Can you explain?
Dadashri: The Atma is a receptacle of expansion and contraction, so it can stretch as far as it wants to. Therefore, it has to go where it has karmic ties (roonanubandha), does it not? Do you think it is going to walk all the way there? It does not have legs and a gross (sthool) body!
Questioner: So can it live in two places at one time?
Dadashri: Yes. It can stretch as far as it has to go. So when it begins to enter the new body over there, simultaneously it is leaving the body over here. Just as a snake leaves its burrow; part of it is outside and the other part is inside. It is similar to that!
Questioner: But even when they cut the body or split it open, you still cannot see the Atma.
Dadashri: The Atma is not something that you can see! But does it not leave when the body is cut up? When a person dies, who is it that leaves?
Questioner: The Atma leaves.
Dadashri: Yes, it leaves and yet you still cannot see it. But it is there for sure. It is a light; it is in the form of a light. All this is its light! If it is not there, then everything would end. Have you seen the body once the Atma has gone out of it? Have you seen death process (nanami)? Does the body still have light in it?
Questioner: No.
Dadashri: Then the Atma has left the body. So the Atma is itself in the form of light.
Does the Soul Re-enter the Same Body After
Death?
Questioner: When the heart stops beating, we say that the person is dead.