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Aptavani-6
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Sahaj Prakruti
Questioner: What is the natural and spontaneous (sahaj)
relative-self (prakruti) of the Gnanis?
Dadashri: Prakruti is considered sahaj when you have
a thought and it does not cause an effect within.
Questioner: How and when does the prakruti become
sahaj?
Dadashri: If one does not interfere in charitra moha
(discharging karma effects, discharge moha), then the prakruti
begins to become natural. The Soul is verily natural. But when
prakruti becomes natural then moksha occurs. Women are
more natural and spontaneous than the men here. Foreigners are
more natural than women from this place (India) and these animals
and birds are even more natural than the foreigners.
Questioner: Is the naturalness of all these categories
associated with the Self-knowledge (Gnan) or with the ignorance
of the Self (agnan)?
Dadashri: Their naturalness is associated with agnan. It
is like the naturalness of these cows and buffaloes. The cow may
be jumpy and wild and may even charge you to strike with her
horns, and yet it is natural. ‘Natural’ means to become absorbed
in (tanmayakar). ‘Natural’ means to become one with the nature
of the prakruti and not interfere in it. Such naturalness is with
ignorance of the Self.
If we ever try to catch this cow’s calf, you will see painful