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the vyavahar atma – the relative self. But people do not
understand what goes on within the relative self. You have no
understanding about the vyavahar atma; the creator of another
(new) pratishthit atma is ‘you’ yourself. Because you do
pratishtha, it gives rise to the pratishthit atma. By having the
belief of ‘I am Chandulal’ and being Chandulal, your (new)
pratishthit atma arises again; another pratishtha is being
formed within. Because you believe in the one with a form, you
are doing pratishtha in the form and that is why the one with
a form will be born. With the belief ‘I am a pure Soul’ everything
will fall away.
Pragnya (the direct light of the Self) is
biased only towards the Self
Questioner: Does not the intellect (buddhi) also say, ‘I
am Shuddhatma (pure Soul) and not the body?’
Dadashri: Here it is not the buddhi that says so. The
buddhi will not allow you to say, ‘I am Shuddhatma.’ It is self-
destruction for the intellect to say so. It will lose its own
existence. Therefore the intellect will never side with the
Shuddhatma. If it says, ‘I am Shuddhatma,’ then the mind, body,
chit and ego will lose their existence; so even the mind will not
accept this. They understand it but they will not accept it. The
intellect will always side with the worldly life and the worldly
soul; it will never side with the pure Soul. It will always oppose
the pure Soul. Now there is an energy within you called
‘pragnya shakti’; it has become separated from the Self. As
long as it is involved in the worldly life, the Self does not have
to do anything. This energy of the Self, called pragnya shakti,
does the ‘work’ on behalf of the Self. What is its function? Day
and night, it will keep guiding the relative-self towards the Self.
The whole day it is constantly working to take the self towards
the Self. And the energy called agnya shakti (ignorance of the
Self) which is what we call buddhi (intellect), works day and
night to take the relative self towards the worldly life. There is