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soul has decreased, is how the world is. Not a single subatomic
particle (parmanu) has increased or decreased. Whether you
burn them or do anything else to them, even then, from time
immemorial, not a single subatomic particle (parmanu) has been
lost or gained. That is how this world is.
So, the Atma has neither come, nor gone. This coming-
going is just the language of the intellect (buddhi). When you
come into the language of Gnan, you will understand that nothing
like that has happened. It is because of the intellect that things
appear that way to you. Once the intellect goes away and the
ego goes away, you are indeed free. It is the intellect (buddhi)
and the ego that have caused all this, and that is why you perceive
things in this way.
Who Will Remove the Tangled Belief in
Circumstances?
When a person goes outside, where does his shadow
come from? From all the circumstances (saiyogo)! When the
circumstance (saiyog) of the sun comes around, the shadow
arises, and when a circumstance of a mirror comes about, there
is a reflection. So all this has come about because of circumstance
(saiyog), and it has completely altered your belief. The Self
(swaroop) has remained the same, but it is the belief of ‘what
has happened here?’ that changes.
A little bird pecks at a mirror, does it not? Does a little
sparrow not peck at its own reflection in the mirror? Now a man
would not do that. That is because he knows that it is his own
photo (image/reflection) in the mirror. But the sparrow’s belief is
altered, so that it perceives it as another bird and keeps pecking
away at it. But when the experience is prolonged for several
days, the belief breaks. That is just how the belief has altered.
The entire belief has become wrong, which is why the ego
(ahamkar) has arisen, and also why the intellect (buddhi) has
arisen. As the light of the intellect (buddhi) is turned on, the