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Aptavani-9
Suspicion-free in regards to the Soul
The Lord has said that one cannot become suspicion free
regarding the Self. This had indeed happened for Lord Krishna.
Otherwise, suspicion over what the Soul must be like will always
remain: ‘Is the Soul like this? What must the Soul be like? Surely
there must be some doer-ship in the Soul?’ Uncertainties such
as these are bound to remain. Otherwise people will claim,
‘How can everything function without doer-ship?’ Alas only
the Gnani Purush can know how everything works. The Gnani
has come to know the Soul (the Self). The Gnani knows and
experiences the Self and it is not the kind that is described in
the scriptures. Nothing related to the Self is to be found in
books.
No one has become suspicion free in matters of the Self.
People claim, ‘Surely the soul must have at least this much intent
(bhavna)? Now the soul that people believe to be the Soul is
the soul I call nischetan-chetan (‘lifeless life’ or the ‘charged
soul’ or ‘charged consciousness’). So how can anyone attain the
Soul based on these beliefs? Suspicion is bound to remain here.
The whole world has suspicion in matters of the Soul.
People tell me, ‘the soul is doing anger-pride-attachment-greed’
I respond, ‘So then we don’t have to worry about anything. The
matter is over!’ They go on to justify, ‘because matter which is
inanimate (jada) can never do anything.’ I tell them, ‘Yes, the
inanimate cannot do anything but, how can the Soul? When the
energy or the power to ‘do’ is not an inherent property of an
entity, how can that entity do anything?’ In fact, people do not
have knowledge of the vyatirek (tertiary) property that arises
when jada matter (inanimate) and chetan (Soul) the animate,
come in close proximity with each other. They do not know that
when these two elements come together, a third property arises
spontaneously. Neither the Soul nor the matter loses its intrinsic
(anvaya) property but a new, a third property (vyatirek) arises.
However, only the Gnani can make one understand this.