Questioner : Arjun says, “Nashto moha smrutilabdha sthitosmi,” (You will acquire stillness or think about Atma only when your moha is destroyed).

Dadashri: Yes, but one at least becomes still, does he not?

Questioner : Yes, but I want to know how one becomes still.

Dadashri : The one who acquires these attributes; the one whose moha (attachment) is destroyed, becomes still. This is the sign of becoming still. Another thing that helps him is when he has no worldly thoughts ( smrootilabdha ). Because of all this, he becomes and remains still. From this moment on, this state is considered the state of stithpragna . All these other causes help him to remain still. When one claims that his moha has been destroyed, it is a very high state.

The state of every human being is like that of a spinning top (the toy spins dissipating energy similarly humans are ‘spinning' as dictated by their prakruti ). In the same token, Arjun too was a human being but he says ‘ ‘ sthitosmi' (“I have become stable in the soul.”). It is written in the ‘Gita' that he tells Lord Krishna, “O steady one, through your grace I have become steady.” So is this not contradictory where humans are concerned?

Dadashri : He came away from a state of being a spinning top, into his real form as the soul. Despite having his prakruti , he comes into the real. Because the dehadhyas – the belief of ‘I am the body' that he had becomes completely destroyed. His moha (attachment with the body) was destroyed and his belief came into “I am this (soul).” Prakruti is unstable and unsteady and the Self is stable and still. Therefore, the belief that remained in that which was unstable disappeared and it became entrenched in that which is stable and still, and therefore he became still.