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Aptavani-8
There are infinite living entities (jivas) there. So no matter how many living entities decrease from the infinite number, its infinity never goes. It is not worth gauging with your intellect (buddhi), because where this is concerned, the intellect will not reach there. Nothing can ever diminish from infinity. No matter how much you take out of infinity, it still stays as infinity, and that is what you would call infinite. So there is never a loss over there! Even in the location of ultimate liberation (Siddha gati) there is infinity, so that even when innumerable amounts increase over there, they still remain infinitely infinite.
Humans are the only beings in the universe that are sankhyat (can be counted; enumerable). All other life-forms are asankhyat (cannot be counted; innumerable). Enumerable (sankhyat) means that they decrease and increase, and there are certain laws that govern this fluctuation (increase and decrease). The fluctuation is its normality. When there is an increase in a certain number, the population increases to a certain degree, and again, when there is a decline in numbers, the population decreases up to a certain degree; that is its normality (norm).
Now when it is time for it to start decreasing, the part which is infinite (anant) will decrease first, then the part which is innumerable (asankhyat) will decrease, then the part which is enumerable (sankhyat) will decrease, and then the enumerable properties (sankhyat guna) will decrease. Then the innumerable properties (asankhyat guna) will decrease, and then the infinite properties (anant guna) will decrease, and then it will become increasing (vardhaman) once again. And after increasing, it decreases (heeyamaan).
Questioner: What does numerable (sankhyat) and innumerable (asankhyat) mean?
Dadashri: Sankhyat (numerable) means that it is something which you can count. The human population is numerable
| SR No. | 030038 |
| Book Title | Aptavani Shreni 08 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Dada Bhagwan |
| Publisher | Dada Bhagwan Aradhana Trust |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 436 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 1 MB |