Aptavani-1
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chetan is a “black hole”. Once all dealings cease with the mishra
chetan, then where is the difficulty? (Dadashri is referring to the
tremendous problems created in the interaction between man
and woman).
You should keep a safe side so that you can sit with a
free mind. If the mind craves for some ice cream, give it some,
so that it will allow you to sit peacefully. But mishra chetan will
not let you do that. Even in satsang, it will gnaw and sulk at you.
Your being is divided in two parts : one is lifeless life
(nischetan chetan, inert consciousness) and the other is pure
Self (chetan; pure consciousness). You mistake the lifeless life
to be the self. They are both in a mixture form, not in a
compound form. If they were in a compound form they would
both lose their individual properties.
The lifeless life (the body) is mechanical. Even the external
part is mechanical. You have to ‘turn the handle’ to set the
gross machinery in motion, but the inner subtle machinery has
already been set in motion by you from your past life and it is
on auto-pilot. You just have to add fuel (food) to it but you do
not have to set it in motion. The subtle inner machinery is
mechanical but when you take credit for its actions by saying ‘I
did it’, you charge new karma and sow seeds for the next life.
The entire world believes the lifeless life to be life. It also
believes that the soul is involved in all actions. The Soul cannot
be in any action nor can any action be in the Soul. But how is
one to realize this? The world is run by the interaction of all that
is non-Self. This interaction is an effect of causes created in past
life for all living entities. The Self is distinct and separate from
the non-Self. If you delve deeper into this, then what runs this
world is also totally separate from these two. That is all ‘vibhavik
guna’. Vibhavik guna means those attributes that are born out
of the coming together of the Self and the non-Self (matter).