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Aptavani-8
There is no Atma in the part of hair we cut off. If someone
cut your hair in your sleep, you would not know it, because
there is no Atma there. But in the places where there is Atma,
you would feel the prick of a pin right away.
Questioner: Generally, is Atma not in the brain? And is
it not because of the nerves that we feel the pin prick?
Dadashri: No. The Atma is in the entire body. There is
only the brain in the head, which is machinery. It is a tool that
provides internal information. The Atma exists throughout the
body. If a thorn slightly pricked you on the foot, would you not
immediately feel it?
So what you see is indeed a “photo” (image) of the
Atma. The only thing is, that it is covered up with layers.
Otherwise it is the same photo. The Atma’s photo then, remains
the same.
So you know that the Atma is present, in whichever part
of the body you poke a pin and you feel it. Would you not even
feel it, if someone poked you with a pin in the night? When you
feel pain anywhere on the body, from a pin prick, it is the Atma
that knows it. Or else, if the Atma has gone, no matter how
many times you poked the body with a pin, Chandubhai would
not utter a word or flinch at all.
Questioner: Can we say that the Atma feels pain?
Dadashri: The Atma can never feel pain. If you put a
burning flame on ice, will it burn the ice?
Questioner: It does not hurt when we cut our hair, so
does that mean the Atma is not there?
Dadashri: No, it is not there.
Questioner: So where we feel pain, the Atma is there?
Dadashri: Yes, there is Atma there.