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I am the Soul “Yes, come in! You have committed a crime. You shall be punished.”
“Lord! What crime! Please tell me!"
“Why do you chase darkness around? You go and chase him out of wherever he is! You do not let him remain anywhere at all. Do you have the only right to this world?'
“But, Lord! Who told you this?” “Darkness himself came here crying.”
“Lord, O Lord! Please pardon me! In my unrestrained wandering of infinite time, I have never seen darkness! I do not even know how he looks!”
Brothers! So true! Where there is light, darkness cannot remain at all. So how would he have seen darkness? Well, we need to manifest this ray of light, so that the darkness of ignorance shall not remain. Our thinking that body is the soul, or mistaking the mind, life or senses for the soul is our ignorance. Let us manifest the bheda-vijnana to dispel this ignorance.
First of all – The differentiation between animate and inanimate i.e. bheda-vijnana. Body and soul are separate. Body is inanimate while atma is chetan.
Secondly - The differentiation between natural and affected disposition. Knowledge etc. are the natural disposition of the soul, while anger etc., are the affected disposition.
Thirdly - Differentiation between the transformations in the states of original disposition - paryayas - and its gunas. While gunas are eternal, the paryayas are momentary.
Fourthly – Guna-dravya bheda-vijnana. Dravya is where the gunas reside. I am atma the dravya and knowledge etc. are my gunas.
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