Aptavani-9
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(tanmayakar) under the dictates of vyavasthit, we should not let
‘him’ become tanmayakar. Now to maintain this separation….
Dadashri: That ‘action’ is verily the purusharth.
Questioner: Who keeps this separation?
Dadashri: You have to do that. What do you mean who
has to do it? The one, who keeps the separation, will keep it.
But You have to decide ‘I want to remain separate’. When You
are the pragnya, You will ‘do’ this; keep the separation. When
you remain as Chandulal (in ignorance – agnya); you will
become tanmayakar. But You have to make a decision. If it
happens on this side, know that pragnya has done it, if it
happens on the other side; know that agnya - ignorance - has
done it. You have to decide, ‘I want to do only purusharth. I
have become a Purush. Dada has made me a Purush; the Soul,
the Self. He has separated Purush and prakruti. Therefore, I
want to do purusharth.’ That is what You have to decide.
Otherwise, on the most part, most of the energy goes into
the prakruti the entire day; the water just goes to waste flowing
this way.
This is how the experience as the Self grows
Questioner: So the ‘I-ness’ will remain as long as there
are unfolding karmas, correct?
Dadashri: The karma will continue to unfold even after
the ‘I-ness’ (potapanu) is gone, but there is no potapanu in
those unfolding karmas.
Questioner: Yes, that will only happen when the ‘I-ness’
goes away, right?
Dadashri: Even thereafter, the karmas will continue to
unfold but there will be no ‘I-ness’ in it. ‘We’ too have unfolding
karma, but there is no ‘I-ness’. Everyone’s ‘I-ness’ is there
where the karmas unfold. But it will continue to go down after