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Letter 15
Pradeshatva Attribute
Letter 15
Dear Reena & Mona,
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March 8, 1995.
Blessings & best wishes.
It is very nice to see your growing interest in this subject through reading my letters. In fact more than reading, hearing or attending discourses and discussions on the subject benefits one more.
And you are about to get such an opportunity soon. If possible, do take advantage of it. Myself and your daddy are going to conduct seminar of discourses from 20th to 30th April at Pune. That time daily seven hours of Swadhyay will be conducted.
Similarly this year's Shikshan Prashikshan Shibir will be held at Deolali (Nasik) between 14th to 31st May. There daily lectures, classes, practicals etc. will be held for about 8 to 10 hours. You have experienced it yourself when you had undergone such Prashikshan at Malad in the year 1987. I remember both of you had achieved the 1st rank in that examination.
By discussing the common attributes, we have also gained some knowledge about the nature of the six substances which are existing in this cosmos. Our today's subject is Pradeshatva Guna i.e. shape formation or shape retentive attribute.
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Its definition is as follows. 'The power or potentiality by which the substance always has some form or shape is called Pradeshatva Guna. Out of the six substances in the cosmos Pudgal is the only substance which is Roopii.e. having touch, taste, odour and colour which can be perceived by sensory organs. All the rest of the five are Aroopi which don't have such attributes. The shape of the former substance can be seen by us. But we are always in doubt about the shape of the latter Aroopi substances, as we are not able to see or feel them.
Shape means the extent of the substance. It's length, breadth, thickness etc. The shape of the Roopi substance is also Roopi. And the shape of the Aroopi substance is also Aroopi. The shape of each substance is due to its own Pradeshatva attribute and not because of any other substance. No substance or Jeev can be Karta or the doer of the shape of any other substance.
We see innumerable forms of trees, their leaves, flowers, fruits, different kinds of animals and birds in different shapes and sizes. Who must have decided and created their shapes? Who made the shape of the lotus? It has the capacity and power to form its own shape.
One who does not know about the attribute of Pradeshatva thinks or has misconception that the God has created this universe and has given different shapes to these things in the universe. This misconception is
