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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Aptavani-8
jiva (soul) then pleasure and pain would be the same. Why would that be? Have you ever thought about this? What have you thought?
No living being (jiva) likes pain, is that not a fact? Does any living being like pain? If you put a lump of sugar out here, the ants will scurry around with excitement and take it away, but what if you put some gravel there instead? They would run off. Why is that? What do they like? Pleasure. Therefore, that which does not like pain and looks for pleasure, is the jiva. The one that moves around, walks about is not jiva.
Where There Is Feeling. There Is Chetan
(Life)
Then that which feels, does it have feelings or not? That which has feelings is a jiva (living being). And the jiva (living entity) itself is Atma; it is chetan itself, and it can also become the Absolute Soul (Parmatma)! When it becomes full and perfect, it becomes Parmatma (Absolute Soul).
Do you understand? That, wherever there are any feelings of any kind, therein lies the Atma, and decidedly there is chetan (life) present. Therefore, you should know that where there are feelings, there is life (chetan) present. And if something does not show feelings, then it has no life and therefore, it is anatma (without Atma). Even trees and leaves have feelings.
Questioner: But a tree is a one-sensed organism (ekendriya).
Dadashri: One-sensed (ekendriya) means it only has the feeling of touch (sparsha), and it can display the feeling of touch. Every living entity (jiva) has feelings. Those that have feelings, clearly show the presence of Atma. It is not that the entity in which the feelings arise is itself the Atma, but that wherever there are feelings, there is Atma. And where no feelings arise; there is no Atma.