I am The Soul Part 02

SR No.: 006791
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tarulatabai Mahasati
Publisher: Shri Gujarati Shwetambar Sthanakwasi Jain Association
Total Pages: 466
Language: English, Hindi
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 18 MB

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I am the Soul
perhaps a jiva with less or lighter karma may race ahead while another may take the time required for the transformation of half the pudgals. But it does go on getting free gradually from the karmas and attains moksa at the end.
Thus, the Gurudev says, a jiva can attain moksa as it gets detached from the good or evil feelings. O Disciple! You should understand that if activity is fruitful, so is detachment. The disciple had asked that the jiva is straggling with karma from infinite time, and yet it is just as it was. The depravity of the jiva has not yet left it. In response to this, the Gurudev says -
त्यो काळ अनंत ते, कर्म शुभाशुभ भाव; तेह शुभाशुभ छेदतां, उपजे मोक्ष स्वभाव
Infinite time was lost because the jiva has remained engrossed in good-evil thoughts. It never attempted to overcome them. By and large, the jivas remain in such good-evil thoughts; they are not aware that it is possible to detach oneself from them.
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Man mistakes retirement for uselessness. Retirement is taken for inactivity, for sitting with hands crossed, for lying around lazily. If there is activity, it is bound to have some effect. What effect can inactivity have? Nothing whatsoever! But what is this retirement. When a jiva is involved with some activity and it moves away from it and abandons that activity, the jiva is said to be retiring from it. Only when it retires from one activity can it get involved with another. The time of retirement can be put to good use.
Well, it is the same with the feelings in the atma. Good and evil are both passionate feelings, impure feelings. They have to be abandoned, to be destroyed; they have to be retired from. As a result, atma stabilises in its natural disposition of the self and pure thought appears. In fact, material world does not fit into the natural disposition of the jiva. It is developed when the jiva
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