Aptavani-8
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Aptavani - 8
Part : One
What Is the Atma? What Must It Be
Like?
What Is the Atma?
Questioner: What is the Atma (Soul)?
Dadashri: The Atma means life energy (chetan).
Questioner: So does life energy (chetan) mean Atma
and Atma means life energy (chetan)?
Dadashri: No. Atma is just a word, and even chetan is
just a word, but we have to use these words for people to
recognize them. Otherwise it is beyond words. Does one not
have to point them out? Or else you would not even recognize
them. How else could you recognize them? Is that not why
people say, ‘go look for your Atma?! The Atma means the Self.
To know, ‘Who you are’ is called Atma (Self). And it is that Self
which you need to recognize. When the wrong belief (of ‘I am
Chandubhai’) goes away and the right belief (‘I am the Self’) is
established, this will be resolved. How else would this come
about?
What Could the Atma Be?
Dadashri: Is the Atma an element (vastu), or is it non-
element (avastu)?
Questioner: Avastu.