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(mithya darshan) and give him the right belief (samyak darshan),
things will be solved for him, but until then he will not have a
solution.
The Atma is pure indeed. Your Atma is pure right now,
but for the beliefs that are wrong, which have taken hold within
you. And because of that, you believe that happiness (sukh) lies
in temporary things. Whatever you see with your eyes, hear with
your ears, taste with your tongue, “are all temporary adjustments”,
so you believe that there is happiness (sukh) in those temporary
things. At present you are under the influence of this wrong
belief. When the wrong belief is fractured, you will no longer find
happiness (sukh) from temporary things; you will find happiness
in the permanent. Permanent happiness is eternal happiness; once
it comes, it never leaves. That itself is regarded as attainment of
the Atma, and the experience of the Self (swanubhav) state.
With the experience of this state of the Self, one gradually moves
on to the Absolute state (purnahuti).
How Can There Be a Coming and Going for
That Which Is Eternal?
Questioner: Where did all these living beings (jiva), these
Souls in this world, come from?
Dadashri: No one has come. This entire world itself is a
display of the six eternal elements (tattva). All the six elements
make up the world which you see. It is just scientific circumstantial
evidence! So no one has made this; no one has had to do
anything. It has no beginning and it has no end. I am saying it
as it is, that the world has no beginning, and no end. Only thing
is that from one perspective you see the world, while the other
perspective shows you liberation (moksha)! It is all a matter of
changing one’s perception, that is all!
That which comes, can never be eternal, and the Atma is
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