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long enough the answer will come to you intuitively, providing
you look within. Instead people do not even bother looking for
the right solution, they have no clue and yet they go around
forcing and pressuring the prakruti.
If sugar is rationed on the market, the nature of the
prakruti is such that it will become restless. It will become
restless and keep goading you, “Let’s go buy sugar. Let’s go
buy some sugar because it is going to be rationed.” You can tell
it that you will go when the rationing starts, but it will not
concede. Prakruti is like a child or like an obstinate old man. As
far as reasoning with it is concerned, it is like a child. You can
talk to it, reason with it and it will understand, just as a child
would. We make it understand by giving it treats and candies.
Questioner : In what sense do you mean the prakruti is
like an old man?
Dadashri : It is like an old man from the perspective that
it will not budge or give in no matter what challenges it has to
face; it will remain firm and obstinate. And if it were to give in, it
will do so in no time. ‘We’ have ‘seen’ this. If the prakruti were
inanimate (jada) it would never let go; it would remain unperturbed,
then it would be regarded as being vitarag (without feeling), but
the prakruti has been touched by chetan (the Self). It is a
mixture of both the animate and the inanimate (mishra chetan).
What is mishra chetan? All the subatomic particles
(parmanus) of the prakruti are called mishrasa (mixed parmanus).
When mishrasa release their effects and dissipate, these
parmanus are called vishrasa (pure parmanus). With bhaav or
intent, the pure parmanus becomes mixed again and this process
(charging) is called prayogsha. (Charging parmanus are called
prayogsha. Atoms ready to give effect and whilst giving effect,
are called mishrasa. After discharge, atoms become pure and
are called vishrasa). The inherent attribute of the parmanus of
the prakruti have attained chetan bhaav due to its close