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to feel sorry for anyone here. So why are you unnecessarily
feeling sorry and saying, ‘Dear Lord, save him!’ How can God
save him when God could not save himself? All the Gods born
here did not survive, did they? Lord Krishna was sleeping with
his leg up like this. A hunter mistook Him for a deer and shot
him with an arrow. Death does not spare anyone because the
body is not our real state, the Self. No one will interfere in our
state of the Self. No one is there to touch You if you are a pure
Soul (Shuddhatma). You are an absolute Soul (parmatma).
But if you want to be someone’s father-in-law, if you want to
remain as the self, then there is a problem.
Questioner: What is the intention behind saying to the
body, ‘Leave when you want to, but that is not my wish’?
Dadashri: We say, ‘That is not our wish,’ so that contempt
(tiraskar) towards it does not arise.
Questioner: Who is the one saying these sentences?
Dadashri: They belong to the one who is separate from
death.
Questioner: Is that called the self, the relative-self
(pratishthit atma), the one who believes ‘I am Chandulal’?
Dadashri: No, pratishthit atma is the one that is going
to die. This is the work of the energy of the Self (pragnya) that
leads to total liberation. Pratishthit atma is going to die, so it
will not speak this way, will it?
Questioner: For the person in whom pragnya has not
been awakened, and not everyone has pragnya, when such a
person speaks, then who is the one speaking?
Dadashri: The one who is going to die is separate. The
one that is going to die will not say, ‘I will die.’ There is some
part of the intellect (buddhi) with such an intent (bhaav) and this
part belongs to the state of intellect which has become still