Aptavani Shreni 08

SR No.: 030038
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Aradhana Trust
Total Pages: 436
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 1 MB

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Dadashri: The Atma itself is a state of liberation (moksha swaroop), but it comes under pressure of the other elements. If it is released from those elements, it can attain liberation (moksha). It is itself the state of liberation (moksha swaroop). But through ignorance (agnan), one continues to believe, ‘I am this, I am this,' and with that, one continues to become trapped in the wrong belief! And through Gnan (knowledge of the Self), one is freed.
The Integrity of Arrangement of the Worldly Life Forms
Questioner: Do new souls keep coming into the world or do their numbers stay the same as they are in the world right now?
Dadashri: Are you asking me, that because there is an increase in the human population, where the new ones have come from?
Questioner: No, not that. As the first ara (era of time cycle), the second ara, the third ara all occur, do they each have the same number of souls as there are right now in the current era, or has there been an increase or a decrease in them?
Dadashri: There is no increase or decrease of a single soul. However many that, attain liberation from here; that many souls come here from other places, into sansar vyavahar (worldly interaction). Vyavahar means that those living entities (jivas) that have an identification (name and form), have entered the worldly life. You would say that this rosebush has entered interaction in the worldly life (vyavahar). And anything that has not yet acquired an identity has not entered worldly interaction (vyavahar) at all. There are infinite living entities like that, which have not come into worldly interaction (vyavahar), so do not even bother to count them. As many that go to moksha from here, that many, from other places come here. So the number of