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Aptavani-6
Dadashri: Atkan makes one deluded (murchhit) and
unaware. At that time, ‘Dada’ does not remain as your awareness.
Atkan will make you forget Dada. It will make you forget the
Self and make you lose awareness (laksha). Awareness will not
remain. If ‘Dada’ remains present, it is not called atkan but it
is nikachit (karmas that will give their effects; you will have to
experience them).
Questioner: What should we do if we come to know
later that it was atkan?
Dadashri: You have to recognize that; that is a delusion
(murchha). You will have to do samayik for that. Just like
everyone here, in the samayik you will have to put atkan and
its phases on the ‘stage.’
Questioner: When a young boy does not get a bat and
a ball to play with, it will play on his mind; he will throw a
tantrum. Is that considered an atkan?
Dadashri: No, that is not atkan. Atkan is what has
caused one to wander for endless lifetimes. This bat and ball is
only for a short while. It will last until he is five to seven years
old, only as long as he is a child. Once he gets involved in
business, there will be no trace of it, whereas atkan will remain
forever. It will remain from age fifteen until he is an old man!
Questioner: It is possible to remove atkan through spiritual
effort (purusharth) and extraordinary spiritual effort (parakram),
is it not?
Dadashri: Yes, it is all possible. That is why ‘we’ alert
you that one can do parakram where he has attained the Self
and has become a purush (the Self); there is purusharth there.
One is able to do parakram, therefore, now get Your work
done. It is dangerous to get stuck again, so find the ultimate
solution (ukel) here.
Any kind of atkan (internal blockade) can take hold as