The Molding of the Ego in the Incomprehensible Planning of Nature
This world is running through its nature ( swabhaav), nothing has ever deviated from its nature at all. All of this worldly interaction is a path of evolution. The path of evolution is a constantly changing path in the form of a flow, which has not become still for even a moment. The Gnanis have Seen the nature of this world running as a flow and have been able to show this to others.
The world is without a beginning or an end. In it, embodied souls are continuously evolving. This path of evolution for the embodied souls can be divided into three parts. The first is avyavahaar rashi, in which the ‘goods’ remain in stock and evolution does not take place. The second is vyavahaar rashi, in which the embodied soul breaks out from the stock and begins evolving in worldly interaction, and third is Siddha Kshetra (realm of the absolutely liberated Souls who have attained final liberation)! In the process of evolution, the embodied souls develop from being one-sensed to two-sensed, and so on, until they become human and when they become human, as they have egoism, they become the ‘doer’. So then they have to suffer the results according to their karma. If they incur ‘debit’, then they have to go to a life-form as an animal or a life-form in hell and if they have ‘credit’, then they receive a life-form as either a human or a celestial being.
In this way, within this incomprehensible planning of nature ( kudrat), every single embodied soul is passing through all sorts of ups and downs in the flow on the path of evolution. In the process of evolving, each embodied soul progresses by undergoing experiences at each ‘level’ and then it reaches its final destination. Before reaching its final destination, why does an embodied soul wander in worldly life? It is because of the ego. Because the ego emerges, entanglement arises and it becomes embroiled.
In the current edition, absolutely revered Dadashri says that there are certain laws of nature that are working at the subtle level during the development of the ego on the path of evolution. Moreover, beautiful clarification is given on what nature is, what the link between vyavasthit (scientific circumstantial evidence) and nature is, the natural progression of evolution of a soul, how the ego arises in the human life-form and how it causes interference, how nature’s food is indeed the ego, how the charging of karma takes place through the ego and discharges through nature, the laws of nature for giving power or authority, nature is indeed a photo of ourselves, to know nature is itself a science, and so on.
To help mahatmas remain in the Agna (directive) of vyavasthit, [Dada’s] speech regarding the link between the laws of nature and the ego has been compiled here. May the practical application [of this understanding] be used in our daily lives, so that equanimity remains through Gnan during the ups and downs of the discharging ego, and at the same time, it becomes clear that every circumstance is there to keep the ego in check, it is there to repair it, it is indeed there for my own improvement and ultimately, along with this Gnan, the circumstances of nature take me to my original destination. With this intention, may there be devotion towards the speech of the absolutely revered Dadashri; that is the ardent prayer.