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Aptavani-1
As long as there are doubts about the Soul and the reality,
the worship of prakruti will continue. When one becomes free
from all doubts about the pure Soul, only then does one become
the Pure Soul. Only after that does new causal prakruti ceases
to form.
The Garden Of Prakruti
Whatever effect there is, whatever effective-prakruti there
is, it is irrevocable. It can never be changed. Every father wishes
that his son be exactly like him. Alas! Are you trying to turn
your home into a garden or a farm? Everyone has different
prakruti; they all bloom into different flowers. How is it possible
for other plants to grow the same flowers as your own? If there
were only roses in your home, would it be considered a garden?
No, it would be a rose farm! Just as you have a wheat farm,
you would have a rose farm. But here you have a jasmine, a
rose, a frangipani and thorns too- you have a garden. Prakruti
is a garden. People want roses but they do not like thorns. How
can you have a rose without thorns?
When people plant a lemon tree, how is it nurtured?
Through the elements of earth, air, light and sky. Do these
nourishing elements have a sour taste in them? Do they have tart
juices in them? No. But where did the tartness in the lemon
come from? And where did the bitterness in each and every leaf
and branch of the neem tree growing next to the lemon tree
come from? Both the trees are nourished by the same elements,
they both get equal amount of nourishment. Was the water
bitter? No, so where did the differences come from? The
bitterness and the tartness were inherent in the seed of each tree
and thus in their corresponding fruits. The seed of the banyan
tree is even smaller than a mustard seed and yet how vast is the
tree born from it. The entire banyan tree with its leaves, branches
and aerial roots exists as potential energy in a subtle form in its