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Atma that you are talking about, the real Atma?’ Then he would
say, ‘Yes, that is right, this is also an Atma; nevertheless, I will
still have to know Self-realization!’ So what does that mean?
That the Atma that the Vitarags have seen; that Atma has never
entered the awareness (laksha) of these people. Alas! It has not
even occurred to them in their thoughts. That Atma is still (achad)
Atma, whereas these people call the mechanical atma, as the
Atma.
The mechanical atma is not the real Atma; it is in the form
of a discharge. It is called as discharge chetan. One is the
charge chetan and the other is the discharge chetan. It is Atma,
but it constantly charges and discharges. Do you more or less
understand what I am telling you?
So the Atma is not what the world believes it is. Once a
person knows the Atma, there is nothing more in the world that
he needs to know. So only the One who has nothing more left
to know in this world, ‘knows’ the Self, the Atma.
That is why we have called it pratishthit atma (the belief
of ‘I am Chandubhai’, relative or charged self). People go on
believing that this is the Atma, and it is this, that they try to make
still and steady (sthir). Do they not try to make it still? However,
its fundamental nature is to be restless and active (chanchal); its
very nature (swabhav) is to be active; it is mechanical. When
you attempt to make it still, it is a “waste of time and energy”.
The entire world considers it as Atma, and believes that only if
it is made still, will the work get done. But this pratishthit atma
is ever moving (sachar); whereas the real Atma is immoveable
(achad).
Questioner: This is mechanical and the ‘switch’ has been
turned on, is that not so?
Dadashri: Its mechanical (part) has already been done,
so you do not need to bother too much about that. It has