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Aptavani-4
Dadashri: You do not have to do anything. What can a
“top” do? What can one do when he does not even have control
over his own bowel movement? The stones that become round,
from colliding around over and over, people now say are
shaligrams, and place them in temples! Those that became
shaligrams end up as idols for worship, while the rest end up
in the sea. A person having taken birth in India is himself a
‘stone’ that has become round. If such people meet a Gnani
Purush and attain the Self, they themselves become the idols of
worship, while the others are cast into the sea! Without
becoming Self-realized, there is no purusharth. Until a person
attains samkit (realization of the Self), he will be discharging his
karma, while simultaneously binding new karma (akaam
nirjara).
The purusharth that people commonly refer to, is the
purusharth of illusion. Illusory purusharth means that one has
to take another birth. The purusharth of illusion implies another
birth for a being.
I have drawn an analogy for you of how the stones
originate, their journey, and where they end up. It is very much
like the process of the human life in this world. There is no
beginning for the avyavahar jivas (unnamed embodied souls):
only infinity. But the origin of the process of human worldly life
begins from here, just like the moment the stone falls into the
river. Avyavahar rashi means that the embodied soul has not
been given a name yet (embodied souls in an unnamed state).
From the moment it attains a name, such as ‘rose’ or ‘jasmine’,
or ‘ant’ etc., the embodied soul is said to have come into
vyavahar rashi (an identified embodied soul). (From this point
in time the living entity derives its name and becomes incorporated
into the flow of the worldly life.) They naturally get pushed and
shoved forward. There is a natural arrangement all the way until
it becomes a ‘kernel’ (the end).