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Aptavani-2
The home is a garden of prakrutis
Everything that happens in this world is due to the
attributes of the prakruti and not the Soul. Therefore it is
important for all to become familiar with the properties of the
prakruti. The faults within the prakruti see faults in others. The
Self has only to observe the properties of the prakruti. This
prevents worsening of faults within the prakruti.
‘We’ have thousands of mahatmas around ‘us’ and yet
why is that there a wonderful relationship with all? It is because
all the different prakrutis are known. ‘We’ do not touch their
‘thorns’ (negatives); ‘we’ just look at the ‘flower’ (positives)!
If the plumeria flower were to point out faults in the rose
by saying, “You have thorns”, the rose flower would reply, “You
look like nothing” and so there would be quarrels. If these
different prakrutis could talk, the whole garden would be full of
quarrels. In the same way, this worldly life is like a garden. Here
in humans, the prakruti is able to speak and that is why everyone
points out faults in each other and starts quarrelling.
There are innumerable varieties of human prakrutis.
During the golden ages of the past time cycle, everyone’s
prakruti in a given household would be like a rose (beautiful and
gentle), all the prakrutis would be similar, but in this age of
Kaliyug, under one roof you will find one jasmine, one rose, one
sunflower etc., so many different varieties have come together.
All different kinds of prakrutis gather; the young and the old all
come together. A father wants all his children to be ‘roses’, like
him. And if one of the children turns out to be a ‘plumeria’, the
father will say, “This will not do.” You foolish man, just look at
this garden of