Aptavani-8
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Now if you go in front of a mirror, do you have to tell the
mirror to show you your face? You do not have to say anything,
do you? Why is that? Even then, does it not show you your
exact face? Does it not show the slightest defects? Now because
the mirror gets used everyday, it is not valued. However, it is
worth understanding its great value.
Right now, are you able to see your shadow, inside your
home? No. But when you go out into the streets, you will see
your shadow. So when you turn this way, there will be a shadow,
and when you turn that way, there will be a shadow. How long
does that shadow take to form? So therefore, this whole world
is scientific circumstantial evidence. Nothing has happened and
nothing has been made. The world is nothing but scientific
circumstantial evidence. Bhagwan has not had to do anything in
all this. Even this mind-speech-body complex (prakruti) that
has come about is a result of scientific circumstantial evidence;
and the prakruti is effective. This mind-speech-body is effective
and it is its effectiveness which affects the Atma. That is because
the belief that one has, is a wrong belief. The Gnani Purush
changes that wrong belief, and thereafter, one no longer feels all
these effects.
Only Ignorance Influences the Entire Worldly
Life
Questioner: If the Soul (chetan) becomes pure
(shuddha), does it ever have to come back?
Dadashri: It never has to come back. Once it attains
purity, it means that the ego (ahamkar) has gone, and so it
never has to return. As long as the ego is there, it sows the seed
of, ‘I did it’, and from that, the ego arises again. As long as one
believes, ‘I did this’, the ego (ahamkar) will arise again.
Questioner: So the Atma must have been impure to
begin with?