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attributes? Or is doing kashay (anger, pride, deceit or greed),
one of its attributes?
Questioner: That is not the Atma’s attribute. It does
kashays only by mistake.
Dadashri: If the Atma (Soul) makes mistakes, how can
you even call it Atma? The Atma (the Self) itself is Parmatma
(the Absolute Self). How can it ever make a mistake? Wouldn’t
that make us superior to the Atma, if we pointed out its
mistakes? The statement that “the soul makes a mistake” in itself
means that the Soul makes mistakes and you are pure, without
any mistake. The Soul itself is the absolute Soul; it is vitarag
(absolutely free from all attachment and abhorrence). It is
because you have not been awakened to your own swaroop
(the Self) that you believe, ‘I am Chandubhai.’ I am Chandubhai
- is an aropit bhaav (falsely projected belief); it is an imagining
(kalpit); it is a ‘relative’ bhaav.
So in reality, who would You be? Then who are You
really? This ‘Chandubhai’ is ‘relative’. In the ‘relative’, there are
all sorts of wrong beliefs (vikalp): ‘I am his daughter, I am her
masi (aunt; mother’s sister), and I am her kaki (aunt; paternal
uncle’s wife) etc...’ There are many such ‘wrong beliefs’.
Whereas in the ‘real’ there is no vikalp. If You come to ‘realize
the real’, then You will know that you have become aware of
Your own swaroop (the Self) and You are ready for liberation
(moksha). You have never attained the awareness of the ‘real’
(Self). To attain the awareness of the Self (Atma) is considered
as having right belief (samkit) or right vision (samyak darshan).
You have never attained right belief (samkit), because if you
had, you would not still be sitting here! Without samkit, you
would not have even a moment of inner peace and you would
remain in illusion all the time. When you are getting married, you
become infatuated (murchhit), but then afterward, the novelty
wears off. This is mohanindra (sleep of illusory attachment).