Aptavani-9
141
Then inner entanglements commence and these give rise to all
kinds of suspicions.
Who has suspicion about the Atma?
Questioner: Shrimad Rajchandraji has written in the
Atma siddhi:
‘Atma ni shanka kare Atma potey aap,
Shanka no karnaar tey, acharaj eh amaap.’
The existence of the soul is suspected by the soul itself,
This is verily a matter of immeasurable amazement.
Who has suspicions about the Soul, is it the soul or is it
the (buddhi) intellect?
Dadashri: Suspicions about the Soul are done by the
soul itself; the intellect is not the one doing the suspecting. By the
soul, ‘we’ mean the soul that is in your belief or projection and
not the main Soul; the two are completely separate. What you
call the atma (soul), is the atma that is associated with the
intellect and the ego. The ego, the intellect etc., collectively begin
to have suspicions about the main Soul. What kind of suspicions
do they have? ‘It does not seem like the main Soul. It does not
feel like that.’ They have suspicions and uncertainties about what
the Soul must be like.
Questioner: So besides the intellect, the atma is there
too, is it associated with the intellect?
Dadashri: What do you or the world currently believe
the soul to be? One believes ‘I am Chandulal. The intellect is
mine. The ego is mine. I myself am the soul and I have to make
the soul pure.’ That is what one believes. He does not realize
that the main Soul is pure (shuddha) indeed and all other things
that have a form are things that have been created. Therefore,
the ego is in all this, the intellect is there too and that is what
creates suspicions. The intellect (buddhi) alone does not create