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I am the Soul
out of the worldly ties. Well, these are all the experiences of the life. All these experiences were attained with the attachment to the extraneous. But the detached state of the atma could not be experienced
In truth, atma is only detached, but the jiva can experience that state only if it rests in its true original form of the self. The great poet Banarasidas says while describing this detached state of the atma -
जबही तैं चेतन विभावसौं उलटि आपु, समै पाई अपनौ सुभाउ गहि लीनौ. है तबही तैं जो जो लेने जोग सो सो सब लीनौ, जो जो त्याग जोग सो सो सब छांडि दीनौ है. लेबेकौ न रही ठौर त्यागिवेकौं नांहि और, भाकी कहा उबरयौ जु कारजु नवीनौ है. संग त्यागि अंग त्यागि वचन तरंग त्यागि, मन त्यागि बुद्धि त्यागि आपा सुद्ध किनौ है.
Since the time the atma has given up the transition into the affected disposition and accepted the natural disposition of the self, it has absorbed all that is worthy of absorbing and abandoned all that is fit for being abandoned. Now nothing that needs to be absorbed or to be abandoned has remained pending, and neither anything new worth doing remains to be done. All possessions, body, and waves of speech have been given up, all doubts have been given up, intellect abandoned and the atma has been cleansed. This is the detached state. This indeed is the original form of the atma. The jiva can experience this state when it becomes introspective.
Gurudev says, 'O Disciple! If in spite of thus being in a detached form, the atma is not coming into your experience, it is certain that it is impure, blemished and attached and hence also a doer of karmas.'
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