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I am the Soul
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know about the generation of the atma? If you are saying that - atma has itself recognised its own generation - then that is also incorrect, for according to you atma is not permanent. And if the atma materialises from the generation of the life energy, it will be proved to be permanent. What holds good about generation is also true of destruction. The life energy can know about the loss of the body, but body cannot know of the loss of the atma. That is to say, there is nobody who knows of the generation and destruction of the atma. Therefore, O Disciple! Nobody has seen the atma generating along with the body and getting destroyed along with the destruction of the body.' Furnishing the reason for this, Sri Sadguru says -
जेना अनुभव वश्य ए, उत्पन्न लयनुं ज्ञान; थी जुदा विना, थाय न केमे भान .
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The body being inanimate cannot know of the generation and destruction of the atma. Now, O Disciple! If you tell me, 'Atma's true disposition is Knowledge according to you, and therefore, it has learnt of its own birth and death', even that sounds impossible.
There was no atma before it was born. Now, if it were getting created, would it know of its creation as and how its creation progressed? That cannot happen! And in spite of accepting that it does, who then knows of the destruction? When the knower itself is destroyed, it exists no more, then who will say, 'I have got destroyed'? Therefore, it is not logical to say that atma has itself learnt of its generation and destruction.
Therefore, O Disciple! The one who knows can know only if it is separate from the substance that is known. Everything other than its own self is all jneya - knowable. Therefore, to know of the inanimate body, the knower has to be separate from it, and that is how it is. In Srimadji's own words -
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| SR No. | 006791 |
| Book Title | I am The Soul Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Tarulatabai Mahasati |
| Publisher | Shri Gujarati Shwetambar Sthanakwasi Jain Association |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 466 |
| Language | English, Hindi |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 18 MB |