Aptavani-2
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One likes or dislikes certain events but really both are
events and they are the same. But he likes comfortable situations
and dislikes uncomfortable ones. In an inconvenient circumstance
he will say, “Why has this person come to have tea here?” and
if the circumstance is convenient he will force the visitor to have
tea even if the visitor has no desire to drink it. What is the root
cause behind this? Why does he say this is good and this is bad?
It is because of the illusion (mithya drashti); he has the wrong
perspective. People have absolutely no awareness of what is
right and what is wrong because of this illusion.
In this world, there is only the Self and the sanyog
(circumstance). In this the circumstances are infinite. The
circumstances cloud and color the Self. Let me explain how.
There is a diamond which gives out white light; the reflected light
which comes out of it looks white. Now if we place a piece of
red cloth underneath it, the diamond would appear red and if
you put green cloth under it, it would appear green. The Soul is
just like the diamond; it reflects whatever circumstances come
before it. If anger arises within, it becomes ‘hot’ but in reality the
Self is pure (Shuddhatma) and is never affected, colored or
tainted. When oil and water are mixed, the two never become
one even when stirred endlessly. In the way the Self is
immiscible. In the countless past lives, the Soul has never been
cut, it has never been squashed – whether it has taken a form
of a snake or a cat, whatever form it has been present in, the
Self has not been spoilt even in the least; only the physical form
has changed.
Some prefer the daytime and some the nighttime but both
are circumstances and both are relat