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Aptavani-1
Questioner : The power (chetan) used in the worldly
life, is it that of the pure Soul?
Dadashri : That power belongs to the pratishthit atma.
Nothing of the pure Self is spent or used up. A battery charger
will charge the batteries without losing its own power. No matter
what actions these life forms carry out or whatever birth they
take, the ‘gold’ (Soul) within remains the same, only the labor
of making the ornament goes to waste. The labor of creating
this buffalo is what goes to waste. Countless life times have
been spent in hell, but even then the gold within has not become
tainted, it has remained one hundred percent gold. The creation
and dissolution is that of the pratishthit soul (aka mishra chetan),
the charging and discharging is of the mishra chetan and not of
the pure Soul.
Even the pratishtha (ceremonious installation of an idol)
done in a stone idol gives benefit to people for a long time, does
it not? How powerful is the ritual of pratishtha! It has enough
power to make a piece of iron fly! All these scientific inventions
are of the pratishthit soul. When the pratishthit soul possesses
so much power, how can we even begin to speak of the infinite
powers of the pure Soul (Shuddhatma)? The Soul has so much
power, that if it were to do pratishta in a wall, the wall would
talk!
Even the pratishthit soul is so pure that it has no thoughts.
Thoughts arise in the mind. When a tuber of the mind sprouts,
it brings about a state of thinking. Thoughts about religion or
thoughts about stealing that arise are really tubers of the mind.
If the pratishthit soul had the ability to think, the intellect would
no longer remain. Everything would then become like a computer.
The internal activities that the pratishthit soul performs are the
activities of the inner psychic instrument and that is what will
manifest exactly on the outside. Those who learn how to see the