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then you can hit it with a hunter and tell it to move, then it will. All the bad habits that you have acquired from countless past lives are your obstacles and that is why the prakruti has taken control. The Self is not like that. However the prakruti itself is saying,“ God please take charge”, but because people do not understand, they give prakruti the upper hand.
Even the most expensive well-bred horse will stop dead in its tracks upon seeing a green cloth covering a grave. It will refuse to move and disregard all the prodding from the master. This sudden break within is an atkan, an inner obstruction. This verily is the intense temptation of the‘ devil’ within. One will go that direction knowing well that it is wrong and harmful. People too have also developed such strong inner obstruction( atkan) like the horse. They get stuck in situations in life. One will have to overcome this inner blockade, will he not?
You should not let the prakruti have the upper hand; it should not even have an option! Instead, you should take charge and rule with ease.
If someone tells‘ us’ to go to the final station( death), then‘ we’ are ready, and if they say,“ Let’ s go to a wedding”, then‘ we’ are ready. Prakruti should be kept ready. Instead, people waste away hours contemplating not to do a certain task, but end up doing it anyway because they have no choice. It is better to become natural and spontaneous. Vyavasthit, scientific circumstantial evidence will not spare anyone, so become spontaneous and natural.
Kavi has written:
‘ Atkan thi latkan, latkan thi bhatkan‘ Atkan will destroy one’ s current life, and the effects lead to countless wandering and suffering in future lives. Bhatkan ni chhatkan par chhanto charan-raj kan.’
The only way to escape from this wandering is to