The Eternal Element That Supports...

these two eternal elements, the ones that support motion and inertia remain, nothing else remains. So due to what reasons do these two eternal elements remain with It?

Dadashri: Whichever eternal elements have work that is pending, those eternal elements remain. Those which do not have work pending, not a single one of those eternal elements remain. Now, the work of taking the Self to moksha remains, which is of the eternal element that supports motion, and the work of making the Self still over there is of the eternal element that supports inertia. These two eternal elements do their work and then go off to their ‘home turf’. The very arrangement is like that.

Questioner: Is the Self in a certain state at that time so that these two eternal elements…

Dadashri: No, no state or anything like that. The Self [developing ‘I’] wants to go to moksha. Such a bhaav had been made, and so based on that bhaav, the eternal elements that support motion and inertia have joined in. If you do a bhaav of going to Navsari from here, then the eternal element that supports motion keeps working and the eternal element that supports inertia also keeps working.

Questioner: Now, the Kevali (those who have attained absolute Knowledge from the Tirthankar Lords), the Tirthankar Lords who have gone to moksha from this earth after attaining absolute Knowledge (keval Gnan), those Souls that have gone to moksha must have had support from the eternal element that supports motion, mustn’t they?

Dadashri: As far as the eternal element that supports motion is concerned, the discharge karma [of the developing ‘I’] is indeed ready within. It takes the Self up, that is all. There is no doership of its own in that.

That is why Shrimad Rajchandra said:

“As per the previously planned causes, the Self ascends and remains as the Self in the abode of the absolutely liberated Souls.”

“Purva prayogaadi kaaranaa yogthi, urdhvagaman Siddhalay prapt susthit jo.”

Therefore, the eternal elements that support motion and inertia have been planned in the past [life], meaning they have been charged. Therefore, as part of the discharge, they take the Self there, to moksha. This does not happen on account of any doership of today. What has been charged is now being discharged. Someone might ask, “Sir, on what basis did It ascend? Did It do it with Its own energy?” The response would be, “No, it is not like that at all.” The relative (vyavahaar) is nirmalya (the final discharge; not chargeable anymore). Therefore, that which has been charged in the past, with this final discharge, it places the Self all the way up there. It places Us [the Self] right over there, in Siddha Kshetra (location at the crest of the universe which is the permanent abode of the absolutely liberated Souls who have attained ultimate liberation). Not only that, but the fact that you are coming here and moving around here is because of what had been planned in the past life. It is our planning from the past that brings us here, and Their [the Kevali, the Tirthankar Lords who are ready to go to moksha] planning from the past takes them to Siddha Kshetra, because there is nothing left [to discharge] now, is there!

Our coming and going carries on because of the planned causes from the past life. The causes based on the planning from the past life as well as the new planning have become ready [to give effect]. You will need them going forward, won’t you? In this way, the final planning from the past life takes You [the Self] all the way to Siddha gati

The Eternal Element That Supports...

(the realm of the absolutely liberated Souls). Who helped You reach there? How was the Self taken up there? Firstly, the inherent nature of the Self is to ascend, and secondly, the eternal element that supports motion that assists It, the eternal element that supports motion assists It naturally and swiftly takes It right up there. This is actually a Science (Vignan).

The Self Has No Difficulties in the Course of Worldly Life

That’s it, it is through the six eternal elements only that this worldly life is functioning. And if the Self separates from these six eternal elements, then It goes to moksha, It goes to Siddha gati. Then [It remains] in Siddha gati forever, then there is permanent bliss; there is no other eternal element there, so entanglement does not arise. Here, as the other eternal elements are present, entanglements have arisen.

Throughout the course of worldly life, the Self has certainly remained as the Self, and It has not moved at all. When the time comes for It to go to moksha, for It to leave the final body, even then, it is the eternal element that supports motion that takes It there. Even in that, the Self certainly remains constantly as the Self. So, what ‘we’ are saying is that no Self has experienced any difficulty, that is what the course of worldly life is like.

The Eternal Element of Time

The Eternal Element of Time Makes the New, Old Everything in this world is constantly changing. Therefore, the fact that the new continues to become old is dependent upon Time. Hence, Time is at work. It is an eternal thing, it is ever-lasting, it is permanent. The fact that these eternal elements revolve is on account of Time.

Questioner: If It is Chetan, if It is pure consciousness, then why is It dependent on Time?

Dadashri: No, none of them are dependent on the other in that way, but it is because of the eternal element of Time (kaal tattva) that the new becomes old. The eternal element of Time does all of that.

Questioner: So is Time not the same for everyone?

Dadashri: What can poor Time do? Its job is to turn what is new into old, and ultimately, to destroy it. In addition, its job is to create anew. It does not have anything to do with anything else, does it! Whatever our karmic account is, that is what gets settled.

Questioner: You mentioned that to destroy and create anew is actually a function (dharma) of Time?