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contemplating,’ is the pratishthit atma. The real Atma is not
like that. It is absolutely pure – pure as gold.
So what ‘we’ are saying is that one will become the Self
if one contemplates on the shuddha, the real Self. And one will
become something else if he contemplates on that something else.
Questioner: But is that not a contemplation of the
pratishthit atma?
Dadashri: Yes, it is. The pure Soul, the Self, does not do
anything. If the pratishthit atma turns ‘this way’ towards the
Self, it will become Shuddhatma and if it turns the ‘wrong way,’
away from the Self, then the wrong result will occur. The moment
one attains the Self, contemplation (chintavan of Shuddhatma)
will occur continuously. However, the complaint such as, ‘I am
like this…this happened to me,’ etc., is all an illusion (moha).
Even this interaction with me (satsang) is moha, but it is
charitra moha – a discharging effect. What is charitra moha?
It is that which is shed when one employs equanimity. It will
then not touch or affect him again, whereas the other moha,
the true moha, will not refrain from sticking to you. Because
the illusion that charges karma (darshan moha) is gone, only
discharging illusion (charitra moha) remains for you. This is
called discharge moha.
Those who do not have Gnan still have the belief, ‘I am
like this’ or ‘I am like that,’ in their discharging illusion and,
therefore, they become that which they believe. After attaining
the Self, the Gnan, there is awareness of, ‘I am pure Soul…I am
Shuddhatma,’ and so one continues to become pure (shuddha).
Whatever is going to happen to ‘Chandulal’ will continue to
happen. Whatever is in the nature of his prakruti, will continue
to unfold. ‘You’ do not have anything to do with ‘that.’ All you
have to do is settle everything with equanimity.
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