The Eternal Element That Supports...

Dadashri: And the parmanu that it was composed of, they will revert to how they were. In this, the parmanu that had become a mixture, they separate to the form in which they were.

Clarity is needed, isn’t it? I had tired myself out while pondering over this during childhood; I wondered, ‘Is it the jeev (the Self; life) that leaves [upon death] or what is it that leaves?’ When I understood this eternal element, when these eternal elements came to light for me at Surat Station, that is when I understood all of this!

The Proportion Is Different in Everyone

Questioner: Does the property of the eternal element that supports inertia exist to a greater extent in trees?

Dadashri: There is very little, and the eternal element that supports motion is also very little.

Questioner: So Dada, in everyone, are the eternal elements that support motion and inertia present according to their prakruti?

Dadashri: Yes, according to the prakruti. As the eternal element that supports inertia is greater in it, it is characterized by stillness. In many living beings, the eternal element that supports motion is greater, so it keeps on moving, and in others, there is both inertia and motion, they are in equal proportions, so they are characterized by both.

Questioner: All these bodily functions that carry on, who are they dependent on? Who carries them out?

Dadashri: I told you, didn’t I, the eternal element that supports motion carries them out. Moreover, the eternal element that supports motion helps based on the merit karma and demerit karma one has. If there is merit karma, then the eternal element that supports motion keeps helping.

Questioner: Dada, is there anything like good or bad when it comes to the eternal elements that support motion and inertia?

Dadashri: No, they even help a person with demerit karma and they even help a person with merit karma. They are impartial. The eternal element of Space does not help anyone.

Questioner: So then are the eternal elements that support motion and inertia present in the human life-form?

Dadashri: They are present in all, they are present in everyone; without them, this world cannot function at all.

Questioner: So Dada, if you go from here to Santa Cruz, then can we say that the eternal element that supports motion helped you do so?

Dadashri: Yes, it is certainly the eternal element that supports motion that does so!

Questioner: So then what does this jeev do?

Dadashri: The jeev, the pratishthit atma had done the bhaav. On the basis of the vyatirek guna, the pratishthit atma moves with the help of the eternal element that supports motion. Based on what the pratishthit atma says, the eternal element that supports motion becomes active. The stock of this eternal element that supports motion has been filled within. Now, if you ask a person to get up, then he may not be able to get up at all. The stock that has been filled within him is that of the eternal element that supports inertia, so how can he do that? Whereas some have a restless disposition, such a person cannot sit even for a moment. People will say he has ants in his pants, so he cannot remain seated. So the eternal element that supports motion is filled to a greater extent in him.

The Lord had said to fill [the stock] in equal