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rapture. No one cares about Bhagwan. That Bhagwan tells me
everyday, ‘No one cares about me.’ Some are absorbed with
their tea, some are obsessed with their drugs, someone is always
obsessed with something, some are intoxicated with alcohol,
some are obsessed with their wives, then there are those who
are obsessed with money – Alas the entire world is wallowing
in some form of absorption!
Say Shuddhatma – Pure Soul, for Purity to
Prevail
Questioner: Why do you say pure Soul (Shuddhatma)?
Why not just say Atma, Soul? Is the Atma, not chetan (Self)
as well?
Dadashri: Shuddhatma means pure Soul (shuddha
chetan). The reason for calling it pure (shuddha) is because,
before one used to think, ‘I am a sinner, I am worthless, I am
like this, I am like that.’ All those preconceived ideas that one
had about himself, have all been erased. If one just said soul
(Atma), instead of pure Soul (Shuddhatma), he would lose the
awareness of his own purity (shuddhata); his awareness of being
untainted and pristine (nirlepta) would disappear.
Questioner: So what is the true meaning (marma) of
Shuddhatma?
Dadashri: The true meaning of pure Soul (Shuddhatma)
is that it is detached (asanga); it cannot be tainted (nirlep;
unsmaerable); whereas the atma (the relative self) is not like
that. The atma has been tainted, and the Shuddhatma is the
Absolute Soul (Parmatma). Do people of all religions not say,
‘My Soul is sinful’? And even then, the Shuddhatma does not
have any problem.
The pure Soul (Shuddhatma) itself indicates, ‘Now we
have become unsmearable (nirlep); all our sins are gone.’ So it
is because of shuddha upayog (pure applied awareness of the