Aptavani-6
9
People say that ‘Atma did vibhaav – bhaav that is external
and not of the Self;’ that it imagined that (it did the kalpana).
Allya! If it did have imagination (kalpana), then it would always
have a habit of doing so. That is why ‘we’ say that scientific
circumstantial evidences came together, giving rise to the bhaav
that leads to the non-Self (vibhaav). ‘Scientific’ means mysterious
(guhya). What does ‘mysterious’ mean? It means that all this
(the worldly life) arose after the coming together of dravya,
kshetra, kaad and bhaav. The bhaav that occurs with the
glasses of, ‘I am Chandulal,’ is vibhaav and that is called
bhaav karma. ‘We’ call that the arising of extra results (vishesh
parinaam).
The coming together of two eternal elements (vastu) gives
rise to an additional new result (vishesh parinaam), but all the
while both the eternal elements retain their original quality and
intrinsic property and function (guna-dharma). As long as you
do not come face-to-face with the event of (setting eyes upon)
nice juicy cucumbers, is any bhaav for them likely to arise within
you? But when it does, it gives rise to, ‘These cucumbers are so
good!’ (vishesh parinaam). But is anything likely to happen if
you don’t see them? Someone may ask, ‘What if we find a
solitary place to put everyone where there will be no interactions?’
But that will not work. What has already been established, whatever
instillation of life (pratishtha) has been done already, will give
result without fail and, in the process, one will not refrain from
making a new pratishtha. It may not be the same, it may be
completely different, but one will not be free from additional new
results (vishesh parinaam). When one attains knowledge of
one’s real Self (Self-realization), he will find the bliss (anand) he
is searching for; the vision changes, it becomes pure (shuddha)
and consequently vishesh parinaam will arise no more.
The reality is that ‘pure knowledge’ (shuddha gnan) is
the Self (Atma), and auspicious or good (shubha), inauspicious
or bad (ashubha) and impure (ashuddha) gnan is the living