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person does not have awareness of the Self, there is no such
‘basement’; these new ‘batteries’ will continue to be charged.
They will carry on discharging as well. So they are just
‘batteries’. All three, run down and all three are getting charged.
As long as the imposition of the wrong belief (aropit bhaav) of
‘I am Chandubhai’ is there, the batteries just carry on charging,
because of the ignorance of the Self. And when You have the
awareness of, ‘I am Shuddhatma,’ you no longer ‘charge’ any
new ‘batteries’. The old ones of course, will continue to
‘discharge’ for everyone; the Self-realized and the non-Self-
realized alike, as well as for the animals – they all will have
batteries that ‘discharge’.
No effort is needed in this ‘discharge’. Their nature is to
discharge; therefore, they will continue to discharge on their
own. Your hand will move on its own even if you decide you do
not want to move it. That is because all this ‘machinery’ is
‘discharging’. People however, try to alter the ‘discharge’, now
how can that be possible? At the very least, they can change the
‘charge’ in the ‘charging’ process. When the ‘discharge’ occurs
according to a person’s wishes, his ego will increase, because he
feels that everything is going his way. But when it goes against
what he wants, he will say, “God did this to me. My karmas are
not good.” They utter all kinds of nonsense. It is ‘discharge’
when it happens according to one’s desires and it is also
‘discharge’ when it happens contrary to one’s desires. It shows
its nature ‘discharge’. Two kinds of things happen here – either
you like it or you don’t. For the world, this gives rise to
attachment (raag) and abhorrence (dwesh) towards things.
Attachment towards things one likes, and abhorrence towards
what one dislikes. So the world persists through attachment,
abhorrence and the ignorance (agnan) of ‘I am Chandubhai’.
Jainism calls it raag (attachment), dwesh (abhorrence) and
agnan (ignorance of the Self) and Vedanta (Hindu scriptures)
calls it mudd (impurities), vikshep (obstructed view; false
projection) and agnan (ignorance of the Self).