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Aptavani-8
Questioner: By what means can we get rid of this illusion
(bhranti) that exists? Bless us with that understanding.
Dadashri: One is the doer (karta) of karma, so therefore
he is the sufferer (bhokta) of that karma. What is that? It means
that one gives support to the karma by saying, ‘I did this.’ In
this world, it is not possible at all for any living being (jiva) to
do anything. To say, ‘I am doing’, is illusion (bhranti) itself, and
that itself is egoism (ahamkar). This is the ego showing itself.
Otherwise, all of this is, ‘it happens’. Everything just happens.
While this is happening one says, ‘I did it. I am doing it.’ This
is all just happening. Even if he does not do a thing, he will still
get a nice breakfast and everything, when he wakes up in the
morning.
Now, by what means do we remove this illusion (bhranti)?
If a Gnani Purush makes him know, ‘who he himself is’, then
that illusion will go away, that is all. Therefore, if one finds a
Gnani Purush, then the illusion (bhranti) will leave.
In this world, when the two intents (bhaav) of, ‘I am
doing’ and ‘I know’, are made together, it is called illusion
(bhranti). ‘We’ (the Gnani Purush) do not have the awareness
of, ‘I am doing’ at all. Ever since ‘we’ attained the awareness
of the Atma (Self), the awareness of ‘I am doing’ has never
occurred. Moreover, ‘I’ am no longer the owner of this body.
For the last twenty-five years, ‘I’ have not had the ownership of
this mind, speech and body.
Not Heard, Not Believed, Not Known the
Atma, Then...
Therefore, the Atma is something different. To know the
Atma, would be to know the Absolute Soul (Parmatma), and
he that has known the Parmatma, has indeed attained liberation
(moksha)!
All this is in order to know the Atma. And if you have not