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moment, which results in the body being a baby, a youth and an old man etc., is the sookshma paryaya.
In every substance, with every passing moment, a new state gets created and then destroyed. It is due to this that a new thing becomes old and ultimately gets destroyed after becoming deteriorated. Today you construct a very strong new house, later with every passing moment it turns old and its states go on changing. A 50 or maybe a 100-200 years later it decays and gets destroyed. Thus in all the substances of this world there is a destruction on at every moment. We have seen, and are still seeing, many substances getting destroyed.
The disciple says atma is also a substance. In the atma too the various states arise and abate. So the atma too gets destroyed once and hence it is not eternal.
Such is the doubt about the eternity of the atma in the mind of the disciple. He is inspired to believe. 1) that the atma is born and that it dies along with the body, and 2) that like all other things atma is also momentary. Now he wants an explanation from the Gurudev. How the Gurudev resolves this doubt will be told later.
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