Aptavani-2
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over the mind. How can you have such a prabhav over your
mind when you use its help to do something wrong or improper?
As far as possible, your mind, your chit, your intellect and your
ego should have the impression that you have to be respected
and listened to. They must not treat you like a thief. But if you
want to do something wrong and you enlist the help of the mind,
it will know that you are dishonest. If you have the respect of
people in your home, are they likely to go against you?
Questioner : No.
Dadashri : In the same way, your mind should have a
good impression of you, it should respect you. Before you utter
even a word, your mind, chit, intellect and ego should be ready
and completely attentive to you, just as a cobra is the minute it
hears a flute. Such should be your state, aura, influence and
impression. The mind, chit, intellect and ego are made up of
parmanus; they too need some ease and relief and they will
when you have this prabhav and respect from them. But if you
yourself make them do wrong, you lose that prabhav.
Everything you do, eating, drinking, etc., is all prakruti.
There is the Self and the non-self. Prakruti is in between the
two. It may appear to be animate, but really it is inanimate; it is
in a mixture form of the animate and the inanimate. It is not truly
the Self. Ascetics and sages believe it to be the Soul because it
appears as such. But it is not the Soul. The Soul is beyond that.
When you encounter a Gnani Purush, the omniscient (sarvagnya),
and He gives you the Self in your hand, only then is the Self
attained. But otherwise, you cannot get rid of anger, pride,
illusion and greed through what you believe to be the Soul.
This sentence is worth understanding in detail:
“Not a single quality of the prakruti is there in the pure Soul and
not a single quality of the pure Soul is there in the prakruti.”
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