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I am the Soul The proving of atma's eternal nature is a very benevolent means for us. One in whose mind this belief gets settled firmly, his fear of death will disappear. Death is imminent, but the understanding will be firm that, that which dies is the body. I do not die. I am beyond the realm of age or death. He is exhilarated and sings -
सहजानंदी शुद्ध स्वरूपी, अविनाशी हुँ आत्म स्वरूप;
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One, who has such a firm belief, would have conquered fear. Let the body and soul get separated, what do I have to lose? If the atma's time of residing in this body is over and therefore it walks away from the body, what is wrong? Wherever, whoever has to remain for however long, he remains there only that long, can remain only that long. Once the time is up there has to be a departure! Such an understanding proves benevolent for a devoted and believing jiva. These feelings have been expressed beautifully in a verse -
नित्य छु, नित्य छु आतमा नित्य छु, तो पछी मरण भय केम म्हारे ? भले मरे शत्रुओ, राग द्वेषादिओ, 3747 9241ų tita 7 RIH..... वीर्य रजथी बन्युं, माटीनुं ढेकुं आप, जाय शमशानमां जड - स्वभावे; क्षणे क्षणे मली-बिखरी दशा पलटे पण, faru 410 Fraf ara.....?
I am the soul, and am eternal. Now where is the need to retain the fear of death? The feelings of attachment and aversion, arise and abate, these are my enemies. If they die, they might as well. I neither need attachment nor do I need aversion. I, that is atma, and the fundamental form of inanimate pudgal, the paramanu - atom, these two never die. They are immortal.
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