148 Aptavani-1
Self) and attachment are contradictory. The( vedak) one who appears to be the doer or an enjoyer is the pratishthit atma. All activities visible to the eye or experienced through the senses are of the pratishthit atma and not of the pure Self. The activities of the pure Self are related to Gnan. The pure Self possesses powers of infinite knowledge and infinite vision. These can be comprehended only when one attains the state of the pure Self. It is only then can you understand that as the Self, you are the non-doer. Until you acquire the knowledge of your Self and become the Self, you remain as the pratishthit atma and that is why you are a doer, and therefore the enjoyer and the sufferer. In this state of an enjoyer, you become the doer and thereby create a new pratishthita and a new pratishthit atma and the same old rut continues!
The Pure Self is only the Observer and the Knower. It is the pratishthit atma that creates everything and that is why people like the look of their faces in the mirror otherwise they would not. All this creation is of the pratishthit atma. As long as the pratishthit atma believes‘ I am the doer’, it does pratishtha( sows karmic seeds). Every human being creates his own new birth himself. Whatever pratishtha you do, is how you will be. As you sow, so you shall reap. As is your pratishtha, so is your form. Your pratishtha is your pratishthit atma. This is the doer atma in the worldly interactions( vyavahaar atma).
The whole world is groping around in search of absolute truth( sat). The absolute truth is the Self that gives light and shines within you. At the moment there is no one in this world that has found the real Self and if they have, it is the relative self and that too, only the partial relative self. The relative self is the pratishthit atma.
The pratishthit atma( relative self, relative soul) has no power other than to have deep inner intent called bhaav.