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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different. The one who has thought in a given moment alone can speak in the next. If both were to be different, no thoughts could ever be expressed. If thought and the thinker were both destroyed, who would speak, and say what?
In the same way, the emotions of anger and such arising in our atma, arise in one moment and are expressed in another. Why, that's not all! We sometimes tell others about the emotions of anger-forgiveness, laughter-mourning, likes-dislikes that were felt days, months or years ago. “I had liked this stuff very much at that time, and I like it today too' - when can this be said? If the one, who liked what he liked, from when he liked until today, is existent! Not otherwise.
Thus it does not appear as if, the one, who speaks after considering all views, and with the knowledge of the momentary nature of all substances, is oneself momentary. Even in our life we would have experienced this. Therefore, atma is not momentary; although it resides in the body, it is different from the body; and it is eternal.
If we were to accept that atma is momentary, then karma philosophy would not hold water. The doer and sufferer of karma are both the same, and not different. When karma binds, it may give the result immediately or may not. Most karmas are to be suffered after a long time. If the one who has attached those karmas lives for a long time, only then can he suffer them. Who else would suffer them otherwise? How can one suffer the karmas of another? If that were to be, then there would be chaos in the world system. Somebody commits a crime; can some one else be punished for it? This does not happen even in the material world, so it cannot ever happen in the spiritual world. For the rules and regulations laid down as principles in the material world form the background for the pursuit of the atma. The spiritual world is self-driven; there is no doubt about it. So in this view too, atma is eternal.