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except for God, and the Atma, you will then experience that.
That would also mean that you would not want women, money
and everything else. And you will get such an experience right
here. When? In this very lifetime; even so, not in two or three
months, but it will happen within one hour.
Questioner: And how will it be possible to remain
constantly absorbed (tanmayakar) in, and one with the Atma
afterward?
Dadashri: When a person takes Gnan here, and then
follows ‘our’ Agnas (Five directives), he can remain in the Atma
constantly. But all these worldly entanglements will not allow him
to remain constantly in the Atma. Even you have worldly
entanglements, do you not? Children will say, ‘Father, give me
my school fees.’ Alas, you have the money at home. But would
you not have to go out to cash the hundred rupee note? If one
is not married, he would have work or a business. Therefore
these are all worldly entanglements, and as long as these are
there, it is not possible to remain constantly in the Atma. But
when your intent towards the worldly entanglements decreases,
and as you begin to understand that bliss lies in the Atma, then
these worldly entanglements will begin to decrease. Thereafter
you will be able to remain as the Atma.
Understanding the Word ‘Shuddhatma’
Questioner: They say that the Atma is solid awareness
of the eternal bliss (sat chit anand). Is it an imaginary idea
(kalpana) or is it true?
Dadashri: Why? It is true. It is true that the Atma is solid
awareness of the eternal bliss (sat chit anand). There is no
imagination (kalpana) in that.
Questioner: What about the people who say that it is an
imagination (kalpana)?
Dadashri: The ones who do the imaginings (kalpana),