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contained with anything else. It will remain still for an hour or so
with concentration (ekagrata) or traditional meditation, but the
stillness will break down again.
Questioner: What is the mind (mun)?
Dadashri: The mind is your karmic stock. Do shop
owners not bring out their stock the whole year long? They do.
That is how this mind is. This mind is the stock of your entire
life. The stock of past life unfolds its effect (udaya) in this life
and it gives you further ‘instructions.’ During this moment, a new
mind is being formed within; currently, the old mind is discharging
and a new one is forming.
Questioner: How can one know how the new mind is
being formed, charged, and the old one is being discharged?
Dadashri: When a thought arises in the mind, you become
engrossed or one with it (tanmayakar); that is not the energy
of the Self. There is weakness within and that is why ‘it,’ the
non-Self or the self, becomes engrossed. This happens because
of ignorance (agnanta). The original Soul, the Self, is not like
that; the Self has infinite energy and infinite knowledge. But the
interfering is due to the self with the belief, ‘I am Chandulal’
(pratishthit atma). Hence when one becomes the body and the
mind (tanmayakar), new karma is charged.
Those who are Self-realized will not become tanmayakar
when thoughts arise. So when the time comes, the mind will
discharge but a new karma will not charge.
Questioner: But here, the engrossment occurs
automatically.
Dadashri: Yes, it happens automatically, and that is the
illusion (bhranti)! There is no true spiritual effort (purusharth)
of the self here. Until one becomes a purush, the Self, there is
no true spiritual effort (purusharth) whatsoever. It is your