Aptavani-2
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Questioner : Because there are three qualities (gunas).
Dadashri : There is no individual by the name of Brahma,
Vishnu or Mahesh. These names represent the three natural
attributes (gunas). In the process of learning about the three
gunas, people misused the information and hence created these
three idols. What was meant to be said was that we need to get
rid of these three gunas of the prakruti (characteristics traits of
the complex of the non-self) in order to become pure.
Questioner : By getting rid of these three gunas?
Dadashri : Yes. Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh are
symbolic representations of the three gunas and you have to
transcend them. Bliss exists within you but why can you not find
it? You cannot experience it because of obstacles. Who created
these obstacles? Did God create them? No, you yourself
created the obstacles. And these obstacles are such that even
when happiness comes to you, they will not let you experience
it. Otherwise, you are the supreme Lord, but alas you have
created the obstacles, no one else. Only you have created
whatever suffering you have to experience. If there were
someone else who was responsible for creating all the suffering,
people would have caught him and destroyed him by now!
Not Yamraj (God of Death) but Niyamraj (Natural
Law)
Yamraj terrifies many people. How do people depict
Yamraj? They portray him with long horns, large fang-like teeth
riding a buffalo. If that does not terrify people, then what else
would? When a dog howls, people say ‘Jamra is coming.’
Meaning the God of Death is approaching. You fools! There is
not even an insect called Jamra. This Yamraj people refer to is
really an occurring of a precise natural circumstance. Everything
in this world runs precisely in a definite scientific manner. Death
comes as dictated by natural laws. Now, will you have anything
to fear when ‘We’ tell you that Yamraj is the God of natural laws?
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