has been covered up, and the wrong vision (vibhavik drashti)
has set in, that the world has come about!
The fundamental real Atma (nischay atma) is the pure
Soul (Shuddhatma), and in worldly interaction (vyavahar) it is
the believed atma, which is the relative self (pratishthit atma).
I am Chandubhai, I am his maternal uncle, his paternal uncle...;
this wrong belief has become instilled, and it has created an
instilled (pratishthit) persona which continually gives results. In
the process of tasting the fruit of these results, through ignorance,
one instills anew, yet again; therefore, the cycle continues.
While under the influence of alcohol, a man forgets himself
and says, ‘I am the king’. In the same way, under the influence
of the ego, a person will say things like, “I am Chandubhai…I
am her husband, I am his father...”! In reality, One is the Absolute
Soul (Parmatma); the master of the fourteen worlds. But because
of the wrong belief, he sets himself up as the woman’s husband
and loses his own status. But when the Gnani Purush gives him
the awareness of his own Self and uproots his ego, and when
all the previous illusory effects are erased, he attains the perfect
state. Otherwise, as long as the ego is there, one sees through
the vision of the intellect (buddhi), and believes that the atma
is the doer-sufferer (karta-bhokta). When one sees through
Gnan (Knowledge), that the Atma does not do anything, then
it fits (acceptable). If the wrong belief disperses, then the reality
becomes visible. It is the changed belief that has initiated the
worldly life (sansar) and given rise to the relative self (prakruti).
The original Atma has always remained unaccompanied (asanga)
and untainted (nirlep).
The relative self (prakruti) arises because of scientific
circumstantial evidence. No one has any doership in any of this.
The prakruti is effective, and that is why one becomes affected.
But this is only so, as long as the wrong beliefs are there.
With the right belief, the wrong belief is severed and the
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