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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Questioner: Does every Atma attain the human life at the same time? Does it attain it at a designated time?
Dadashri: Every Atma has to receive a human life.
Questioner: But does it receive it at a time that is predetermined?
Dadashri: Yes, it receives it at a decided time; the beginning of the time of the human life (avatar) is determined. Once it attains the human life, it is then free to roam around independently! That is because whether to create entanglements or not, is now in its hands. After that, nothing is for certain. But the road until there, is definitely there, and it is clear-cut. It is absolutely regular for a living being (jiva) to receive an initial human birth (avatar) and it happens precisely on time. But later, it encounters the entanglements! And when it becomes embroiled in it, it becomes so embroiled, that you would not believe. So many lifetimes are lost in this! This is because in the human birth, doership (kartapanu) arises in the living being, and in doership (kartapanu) there is all kinds of freedom; freedom to go into any life-form. The living being can do the things that would send it to the infernal realm (nark gati), or it can do things that will send it to the animal realm (jaanvar gati); it can even perform gracious deeds and superhuman feats in the human form; do deeds that would return it to the human life-form, or even deeds for it to enter the realm of celestial beings (deva gati)!
And if ever the soul (jiva) encounters a Gnani Purush, or a vitarag (who is absolutely free from attachment and abhorrence), it no longer does deeds that are related to the worldly life (sansar), and starts on the vitarag path; its deeds (karya) become related to the Atma; therefore, it goes on to liberation. So even liberation happens only in the human life-form. Nowhere else, not even in the celestial realm (deva gati), can you attain liberation. In other realms of existence (gatis), there is no doership (karta); whereas in the human life-form, there is doership.