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he did of his own free will was completely different. He was
liberated. He had become a Purush (Self-realized), and had
free will. But on the outside, as far as the worldly life was
concerned, he was duty-bound and he never lost sight of that.
When he renounced his wife, it was mandatory but people
thought he did it of his free will. Whatever my mahatmas do as
mandatory is a luxury and whatever they do voluntarily is
liberation. Liberation with grandeur - such is the ‘Akram Gnan’
of Dada Bhagwan.
The World’s Foundation
The whole world is in search of its foundation, but it is
difficult to find. Pratishthit atma is the main foundation of the
world. Pratishthit atma means the relative self. This relative self
exists because one thinks, ‘I am Chandulal.’ This is a false
imposition of the Self. The Self is not in its original place. Today,
through me, the real foundation of this world is revealed naturally.
You are the pure Self (Shuddhatma), then who else remains
within? Who carries out the subtle internal activities? The
pratishthit atma does it all. Pratishthit atma is the result of karma
caused in your previous life. Whatever beliefs you projected
and installed back then, the pratishthit atma is the result of that
creation. How was this pratishtha (projection) done? Through
the belief of ‘I am Chandubhai’, ‘this is by body’, ‘this is my
mind’, ‘I am the doer of whatever I have accomplished’; these
are all pratishthas. This then becomes the pratisthit soul that
returns in the body at birth. It is also known as the superimposed
self. It superimposes itself everywhere. And during the time of
its dissolution, simultaneously and very subtly another pratisthit
atma is being created (because the wrong belief of one’s identity
still prevails). How can anyone understand or know this?
When is it called a pratishthit atma? It is when you combine
the ‘I’ with attachment of ‘my’.‘I am this’ (‘I’ in the wrong