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Aptavani-2 5 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? * * * * *