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surrender at the feet of the Gnani Purush.’
Once You (the Self) identify your atkan, it starts
disintegrating gradually. The prakruti is amazing, but one does
not know how to extract right work out of it. Instead, one
becomes the prakruti, which is why when the ‘prakruti horse’
runs in a certain direction; he too run with it. Instead why not
take the reigns in your hands and then you can roam wherever
you want with ease.
The prakruti is orderly and regular (niyamit). The mind
does not have any order or regularity (aniyamit). A person
steals a wallet and gets thirty rupees from it. He gives five rupees
to a leper and the remaining twenty-five to his sister. This is what
the mind is like. The nature of the mind is such that one moment
it steals and the next it gives to charity. It is contradictory in
nature but prakruti is without contradiction and predictable. If
you can understand prakruti, you will be able to control it. So
you must try to understand it completely.
There is no problem if prakruti does things within the
social norms. For example people will not condemn you if you
eat snacks and drink tea but there is a problem if the actions of
your prakruti are not accepted by society. If You (the Self) keep
‘seeing’ such a prakruti, it will weaken. The more you observe
it, the more it will dissolve.
If a man comes to fight with you and he has a knife, if you
make an eye contact with him, he will become weak. If you
keep looking into his eyes, he will go away and not return. If he
is strong and your energy weakens against him, he will
overpower you. But here, we have the divine eyes (divyachakshu,
the vision of the Self). When even ordinary eyes can overpower
the other person, what can you not accomplish with your divine
eyes? The divine eyes can dissolve the prakruti!
There is neither a restriction nor an order for anyone to
‘go’ to moksha, but one must become aware of his own Self.