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Self) that we have called it Shuddhatma (the pure Soul).
Otherwise, those with atma do not have pure applied awareness
of the Self (shuddha upayog). Where the Atma is concerned,
everyone is an Atma! But those who have pure applied awareness
(shuddha upayogi); they are called pure Soul (Shuddhatma).
There are four kinds of Atma: one with impure awareness
(ashuddha upayogi), one with inauspicious awareness (ashubha
upayogi), one with auspicious awareness (shubha upayogi) and
one with pure applied awareness (shuddha upayogi). They are
all different atmas. Therefore, when we only say Atma, which
of those are we referring to? So you would say, the pure Soul
(Shuddhatma). And so the one with the pure applied awareness
(shuddha upayogi), is the pure Soul. Now again, the awareness
(upayog) has to be kept pure (shuddha). In order to keep the
awareness pure, you have the pure Soul (Shuddhatma);
otherwise, the awareness cannot remain pure.
Someone asked me, ‘Dada, why are you the only one
who calls it pure Soul (Shuddhatma), when everywhere else, is
calling it Atma?’ I replied, ‘The Atma they are talking about,
could never be the Atma, and the reason ‘we’ are calling it the
pure Soul is different.’ What are we saying? Is that, when we
make you realize just once, that you are Shuddhatma, and that
this Chandubhai is separate, you will have understood it even
with your intellect (buddhi). Now if Chandubhai ends up doing
the worse thing possible, something that makes others condemn
him, you should not lose the awareness of, ‘I am Shuddhatma’,
and never should you believe that, ‘I am impure (ashuddha)’.
It is to say just this; that I have to call it Shuddhatma. You have
never become impure, and that is why ‘we’ have to say this. The
seat of the pure Soul (Shuddhatma pad) that we have given
you – that Shuddhatma pad – the pure Soul state (shuddha
pad), will never again change. That is why we have employed
the pure (shuddha). As far as impurity is concerned, as long as
you have this body, the impurity (ashuddhi) will continue to