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who was bound, ‘you are really free’, what would happen to the
poor man? He would not be able to experience it and would
only do the wrong things.
Does this bird have to do anything in front of a mirror?
The moment the circumstance of a mirror comes before,
‘another bird’ instantly comes in front of it. It will have exactly
the same eyes, the beak etc., and whatever the bird on the
outside does; the bird inside the mirror does exactly the same.
In the same way, the Atma is surrounded by circumstances.
Just as the circumstance (saiyog) of the sun casts a shadow,
it is because of the circumstances that one sees one’s own true
nature (the Self) as being distorted. Only the One who has
become free from all these circumstances, can free us, no one
else can free us. If the one who he is himself bound, how can
he free others?
Where did the Atma come from? It is only in the relative
that I have had to say that the Atma is in the path of evolution
(samsaran marg). On the path, it encounters all kinds of
circumstances (saiyogo), and it is because of the pressure from
these circumstances, that the knowledge has become vibhavik
(wrong knowledge, false attribution, ‘I am Chandubhai’). The
Atma has done nothing else. Because the knowledge has become
vibhavik, whatever intent (bhaav) arose, that is how the body
became molded. The Atma did not have to do anything in it. So
then, whatever one imagines, one becomes; one becomes
whatever one imagines, and there lies the confusion! Then
everything pans out as per natural laws; it is now regulated by
the laws of vyavasthit. Thereafter the cycle of the battery (the
charging of mind, speech and body) from battery, battery from
battery, carries on. Only when the Gnani Purush releases you
from the battery, can freedom be attained. When he separates
the three batteries of the mind, speech and body from you, no
more such batteries will be charged, and the old batteries will go
on discharging.