Aptavani-8
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Questioner: Does every Atma attain the human life at
the same time? Does it attain it at a designated time?
Dadashri: Every Atma has to receive a human life.
Questioner: But does it receive it at a time that is
predetermined?
Dadashri: Yes, it receives it at a decided time; the beginning
of the time of the human life (avatar) is determined. Once it
attains the human life, it is then free to roam around independently!
That is because whether to create entanglements or not, is now
in its hands. After that, nothing is for certain. But the road until
there, is definitely there, and it is clear-cut. It is absolutely regular
for a living being (jiva) to receive an initial human birth (avatar)
and it happens precisely on time. But later, it encounters the
entanglements! And when it becomes embroiled in it, it becomes
so embroiled, that you would not believe. So many lifetimes are
lost in this! This is because in the human birth, doership
(kartapanu) arises in the living being, and in doership
(kartapanu) there is all kinds of freedom; freedom to go into
any life-form. The living being can do the things that would send
it to the infernal realm (nark gati), or it can do things that will
send it to the animal realm (jaanvar gati); it can even perform
gracious deeds and superhuman feats in the human form; do
deeds that would return it to the human life-form, or even deeds
for it to enter the realm of celestial beings (deva gati)!
And if ever the soul (jiva) encounters a Gnani Purush,
or a vitarag (who is absolutely free from attachment and
abhorrence), it no longer does deeds that are related to the
worldly life (sansar), and starts on the vitarag path; its deeds
(karya) become related to the Atma; therefore, it goes on to
liberation. So even liberation happens only in the human life-form.
Nowhere else, not even in the celestial realm (deva gati), can you
attain liberation. In other realms of existence (gatis), there is no
doership (karta); whereas in the human life-form, there is doership.