I am The Soul Part 01

SR No.: 006790
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tarulatabai Mahasati
Publisher: Shri Gujarati Shwetambar Sthanakwasi Jain Association
Total Pages: 468
Language: English, Hindi
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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I am the Soul
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such an experience how will it begin its trek on the path of progress? It is for this reason that the experience becomes the fortune of the soul.
Until now the being has remained in the feelings of faith. This however, is not the end of the road. It is necessary to proceed further on this path. Srimadji explains when and how while saying -
जेम आवी प्रतिति जीवनी रे, GIUSTIT Hatî f477 3 ...40 तेवो स्थिर स्वभाव ते उपजे रे,
774 alfa à Buch...To What was learnt through knowledge was accepted through experience. This experience of the self is unparalleled and out of this world. Having once gone through this wonderful experience the being desires to go through it again and again. Quite often it even accepts. Yet once the anxiety starts flowing like a deep and rapid force, the soul gradually begins to settle down in a steady self-experience. As this steadiness graduates to higher levels, the depth of the experience also increases.
This increasing depth of experience naturally results in the soul inculcating vows and austerities in its external matters. It does not need any premeditated effort to keep such vows. For that matter, it does not even need anybody to administer such vows. Irrespective of the external appearance, the affiliations, the identifications, the being begins to constantly experience “I am the Soul' in absolute bliss. Not even for a moment does it waver from this state of steadiness within its self, for the simple reason that it has experienced the presence of the Soul within. Beyond this point, the effects of the hidden or the dormant feelings of attachment with the inanimate get totally erased. Where then, will be the ego and the possessions? What remains is the experience of purity and nature of self. The invoking of this state of experiencing the nature of self and constantly remaining in it, is the real inner conduct.