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Aptavani-8
The Atma Fills the Space It is in
Therefore, the meaning of omnipresence (sarvavyapak)
is different. It is not the way these people understand it. The
meaning of omnipresence would be like this light bulb. It is the
only bulb; there is not a bulb everywhere in the room. It is just
its light that fills the room. That is how a single Atma has the
energy (shakti) to illuminate the entire universe. After becoming
the pure Soul (Shuddhatma), the remaining karmas are
discharged completely, and when it becomes free of karma, it
has the energy to illuminate the entire universe.
But the way people have understood it, is that there is
Atma in everything, that there is Atma in this and Atma in that.
They have understood it wrongly. What would happen if you
drank the medicine instead of rubbing it on? Then neither the
disease on the outside is cured, nor the disease on the inside is
cured!
So when it is said that ‘this light is everywhere’, then it
means that the bulb is in one place and its light is spread all over