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the karma, where awareness is lost, have adhered around it.
Otherwise, the Self is pure. Even now your Atma is pure.
Everyone’s Atma is pure, but because the external form
(swaroop) has come about, it is in that form, your wrong belief
has arisen. From birth, you are given ignorance (agnan) in that
form.
It is the worldly life (sansar), so from the moment the
baby boy is born, he is presented with the ignorance. And they
will say, ‘Oh, it is a boy, a boy, a baby boy!’ Then he is given
the name Chandu, so they all start calling him ‘Chandu, Chandu’,
so he starts believing, ‘I am Chandu’. Then they introduce him
to his daddy, and they introduce him to his mummy, and all that
ignorance is presented to him. Because then he is told, ‘You are
Chandu, this is your mummy, this is your daddy’. He now has
a wrong belief, which he cannot get rid of. Only when the Gnani
Purush breaks that wrong belief, does the right belief set in, and
it is then that things will be solved! So the Atma is really pure,
but this is only a matter of the difference in the vision (belief).
Questioner: But how did this begin?
Dadashri: It is because of all the eternal elements coming
together, that these situations arise! This worldly life (sansar)
means the path of evolution (samsaran marg), and evolution
(samsaran) means that it is constantly changing. And it is because
of these changes that you feel that your Atma is impure; however
I see your Atma as only being pure. It is only because of your
wrong belief that you perceive it as being impure. I will fracture
that wrong belief and replace it with the right belief, so even you
will see it as pure.
This is just a deluded vision (mithya darshan) that has set
in; where there is no happiness (sukh), you believe there is
happiness there. When ‘we’ (Gnani Purush) give Gnan, a person
finds the road in the right direction. And once he finds the path,
things will fall into place. When ‘we’ change his deluded vision