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
the deep darkness, it cannot suddenly generate the energy that can destroy all karmas. It has to await the right time. But it is certain that an atma in the bright phase will attain the ultimate.
The disciple has a doubt about the existence of moksa. Gurudev is trying to remove that doubt. Jiva is by itself in the natural disposition of moksa. If this natural disposition is awakened, then jiva can rapidly progress in the direction of the tremendous effort. This effort, the purushartha, destroys ignorance, breaks the alien influences and attains moksa as it progresses. Gurudev while trying to tell us this, says -
देहादिक संयोगनो, आत्यंतिक वियोग; fhell HTA PATA , Fast Bia HGHT .....98
O Child! When there is a total detachment -- atyantika viyoga - from the body and other sanyogas, moksa happens at that very moment. Body, senses, mind, intellect etc., are all with the jiva due to the sanyoga. There has to be a viyoga - detachment, wherever there is a sanyoga - involvement. This jiva in the past has obtained body and senses etc., several times and was detached from them as many times. Wherever it was born, it got a body, and along with it upto five senses. Sometimes it found a mind, an intellect and with the assigned age for that life getting over, it had to abandon all that there and take another birth. Thus there was a sanyoga and a viyoga of body etc., for an infinite number of times. Yet the jiva could not go beyond. The reason being that although the jiva went through viyoga from the body etc, the karmas remained with it, which were repeatedly instrumental in arranging the sanyoga with body etc.
Just as the viyoga from body etc., was for a short while, the karmas attached to the atma did not dissolve completely and the sanyoga and viyoga with them continued. Sometimes, there were more karmas, sometimes less, but they did not break the barrier