Aptavani-6 by Dada Bhagwan (ebook reader web .txt) 📕

Today, one becomes clean and free from ego that hurts others but how can people suddenly forget the echoes of the ego that have prevailed to this point in time? Those echoes will remain. Until those echoes end by themselves, there is no other choice but to wait.

The mirror will reflect the image of whoever is standing in front of it. Thus, one is to become ‘clear’ like the mirror. A mirror-like clarity does not occur because of blockage of inner impediments (atkan). And because of that, people do not get attracted toward us. Because of this atkan, other people do not even like our true statements. And because of that, there is no emanating radiance of smile of liberation and there is tension in one’s speech!

Once that attraction does occur, every single word of such a person will become divine.

Why have we had to suffer the wanderings for infinite lives? It is because of atkan! Because one did not have the bliss of the Self, he sank into the atkan of pleasures of the flesh. These impediments can be broken down by the grace of the Gnani Purush and, thereafter, by one’s own tremendous spiritual effort (parakram isextraordinary spiritual effort). Infinite bliss prevails when this happens! If the blockade is not rooted out, it will root us out away from the Gnan and even from the ‘Gnani.’

When someone’s shadow is cast on us, his disease will enter into us. No matter how beautiful the virtues of another person may seem to be, after all, they are the virtues of the relative-self (prakruti) only! The virtues of prakruti will come to an end or are subject to deformation. An Alfonso mango may look beautiful but it will stink when it rots!

There should be instant repentance whenever sexual attraction arises. And there should be the request from the pure Soul of that person for whom the attraction arose for; ‘Grant me the energy to be free from these thoughts of sexuality.’ Because of sexuality through thoughts, speech and acts, an account of vengeance (veyr)is created. This account will ruin many lifetimes.

Pratikraman is the process of recalling, repenting and asking for forgiveness with the avowal to not repeat the act of aggression through thoughts, speech or action, as shown by the Gnani Purush, Dadashri. At first, pratikraman will stop aggression (atikraman) and break your wrong intentions. Later, it reaches the person you have hurt, however, you are not to see whether it reaches him or not. All this is for you only!

If pratikraman is done for a tiger, the tiger will do what we tell it. There is no difference between a tiger and a human being. Because of the change in our vibrations (that we emit due to pratikraman), there is an effect on the tiger. As long as we hold that ‘the tiger is a savage animal,’ it will remain savage, and if in our belief and vision there is ‘the tiger is pure Soul,’ the tiger is verily a ‘pure Soul.’

When our interference stops, when such vibrations stop, no one will be out there to send us any vibrations. If we inadvertently happen to send out vibrations due to old habits, they can be washed away with pratikraman; that verily is purusharth - spiritual effort!

How can the wedge of karma be fractured? ‘By settling all files with equanimity.’ The moment you see a ‘file’ (everyone and everything that is the non-Self), You should make a decision of, ‘I must settle with equanimity,’ then everything will get arranged accordingly. And in case it happens to be a ‘sticky (difficult) file,’ and a settlement of that file is not done despite this decision, then You are not liable; here ‘scientific circumstantial evidence’ is responsible.

Why is a “sticky” file ‘sticky’? It is because you have made it so. Instead of seeing the ‘sticky character’ of the sticky file, if you see the sticky nature of your own file (your relative-self), the manner of seeing a file will change!

Only after becoming the Self (purush – the Atma;enlightened), can one take a picture of the nature of the self (prakruti). How can a photo be taken with the camera of the ego? For that you need the camera of the Self.

The entity that gets puzzled is not the Self. The belief, ‘This is mine,’ is what makes mistakes. We are to only ‘see’ the self. We are not to call it ‘good’ or ‘bad.’ Even if the prakruti (the non-Self) attempts to get stuck to You a million times, your own supreme Self is such that it can never happen. No experiment or event of the universe can soil the purity of the Self. That is who we are!

In order to pay off the accounts of the self (prakruti), the Self has nothing to ‘do’ at all. Those accounts will naturally be settled on their own. The Self has to ‘keep on seeing’ what unfolds!

All losses and deficiency of the relative-self will be paid up naturally provided the ego does not interfere! The relative-self pays off its own losses by itself. Interference is created with the belief and the approach of, ‘I am the doer’!

This spiritual science of Akram Vignan is such that it can blow away all the cyclones of the whole world, but only if we maintain steadiness with it!

Jai Sat Chit Anand

- Dr. Niruben Amin

Translator’s Notes:

Dadashri uses the term ‘We,’ ‘us’ or ‘our’ – meaning the Gnani Purush and the Enlightened Lord within.

Self – with a capital ‘S’ means the pure Soul or the real Self. Self with a lower case ‘s’ means the relative-self, ‘Chandulal’ or the prakruti. Similarly, ‘you’ with a capital ‘Y’ means the real You and a lower case ‘y’ refers to the relative you.

Where Dadashri uses the names ‘Chandubhai’ or ‘Chandulal,’ readers should insert their own name.

Aptavani 6

[1] The Instillation of Life

The moment one believes or says ‘I am Chandulal,’ ‘I did this,’ ‘I did that,’ it immediately gives rise to a new form-idol (murti) of a causal body. This is the instillation of life (pratishtha). Then this new ‘idol’ gives its effects and results. Just as we invoke life in a stone idol which gives its results, in the same manner we are invoking new life into this body which gives its results. The energized non-Self complex of thoughts, speech and acts (pratishthit atma) forms precisely according to the instillation of life (pratishtha). This ‘old’ pratishthit atma instills new life(new pratishtha). The ‘Chandulal’ (reader should insert his or her name here throughout the book) of today is the pratishthit atma of the past life, which, in turn, continues to do pratishtha like, ‘I am Chandulal. I am his uncle, etc.,’ and so everything starts all over again. And when you say ‘I am pure Soul, I am Shuddhatma,’ the pratishtha stops. That is why ‘we’ say that after attaining the state of Self-realization (Shuddhatma), new karma ceases.

Questioner: No one has given such a clear explanation.

Dadashri: You will find a solution if you have a clear explanation; knowledge of the Soul or Self (Atma Gnan) is needed. Knowledge of the Self is lacking; its presence gives such clarity that one can see everything as it is. That is why ‘we’ have given the new term ‘pratishthit atma’ which nobody has done before.

Questioner: So it (pratishthit atma – the relative-self of today) continues to function and does everything according to the way the pratishtha was done?

Dadashri: Yes, it is according to the pratishtha. Just as an idol continues to give benefits once pratishtha is done in it, so does this pratishtha; and due to the results of this pratishtha, children study well and excel in their academics.

The Receptacle of the Intellect

(Buddhi noh Ashaya)

Questioner: Is one’s own spiritual effort (purusharth) not a part of this?

Dadashri: No, one continues to instill life (pratishtha) and the idol (new self) begins to form, then it starts taking shape according to the ‘design’ he has brought forth in his receptacle of intellect (buddhi’s ashaya). What is meant by receptacle of intellect? One says, ‘All I want is to do well in my studies.’ If that is the design of the receptacle of his intellect, so will be the fruit for him. Another may have the design that he wants to progress in his devotion (bhakti), and so his reward will be just that.

If it is in one’s receptacle of intellect carried forward from the past that he would to like to live only in a hut, then even if he has million rupees, he will not feel comfortable living in anything other than a hut. And the one who has in his receptacle(ashaya) that he would like to live in a bungalow, then despite a debt of five million, he will like living only in a bungalow. And the poor disciples and devotees have it such that ‘we will make do with anything that comes along’ and so they will get anything as a result.

Questioner: So does one’s intent (bhaav) work here?

Dadashri: No, it is the receptacle of the intellect; one does not have to make or do the intent. Everything is already settled within according to the receptacle of the intellect. He gets the ‘idol’ ready through pratishtha, ‘I am Chandulal,’ and then everything is settled according to what is carried in the receptacle of the intellect.

Questioner: ‘I cannot do without a bungalow,’ is the receptacle of the intellect. So where is the instillation of life (pratishtha) in this?

Dadashri: The pratishtha occurs automatically when one says, ‘I am Chandulal. I did all this. I am her father-in-law. I am his uncle.’ In this manner, an empty container (khokhu)is formed. Then what kinds of intents (bhaavs)occur? The answer is everything is ‘sketched out’ according to the receptacle of the intellect. Thereafter, internal changes occur according to the contents of the receptacle of the intellect.

Questioner: Who does the pratishtha?

Dadashri: It is the ego that says, ‘I am this…I am Chandulal for sure, and this is my uncle.’

Questioner: One man drinks alcohol in the bars, another worships the Lord in the temple. What is all that?

Dadashri: One drinks because he had done deep inner intent (bhaav) in the past life, of, ‘I cannot do without a drink.’ So he drinks alcohol and he cannot quit the habit. He is not doing the pratishtha (the instillation of life)but while speaking, whatever is the intent is what gets ‘printed’ in the receptacle of the intellect. It is very important to understand the receptacle of intellect. For all of us here in Akram Vignan, both (new pratishtha and buddhi noh ashaya) come to a stop; nothing new is created. In Akram Vignan there is no new pratishtha anymore.

Questioner: Dada, please explain buddhi’s ashaya in more detail.

Dadashri: The receptacle of the intellect(buddhi’s ashaya) is when one person says, ‘I only want to make a living through stealing and black market.’ Another says, ‘I never want to steal under any circumstances.’ Another one says, ‘I want