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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I am the Soul
we are inspired to awaken its supreme nature. Only if atma is eternal can its supreme nature become manifest. For once the atma has become paramatma, the supreme, then it remains so in the same form for infinite time. Anandhghanji Maharaj has recited
झ्यो साहिब संग न परिहरे रे भांगे सादि अनंत
ऋषभ जिनेश्वर प्रीतम माहरो रे
'Sahib' refers to the supreme energy that resides in the soul. Once a jiva is able to charm this energy into its control, then for infinite time this remains with the atma. It will not leave the company. Such a limitless power is there in the atma. Once it begins to dwell in its own true disposition, then nothing ever can let the affected disposition touch it. The cycle of birth and death stops.
The disciple's doubt has been cleared. That the atma is eternal has now firmly been lodged in his belief. A smile of satisfaction is now gracing his face. It is then that Gurudev poses the question about the ultimate transition of animate and inanimate. He asks the disciple -
क्यारे कोई वस्तुनो, केवळ होय न नाश; चेतन पामे नाश तो, केमां भळे तपास .
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A timeless principle of the Universe is that matter can never be destroyed nor can it ever be created. The creation and destruction that is visible is merely that of its various states. A particular state develops in matter and with time being instrumental, that state gets transformed. Like the earthen pot.
Pot is not by itself some independent substance. It is not as if there was nothing until yesterday and today the pot is created. Before the pot there was clay. Nobody made clay, but it is there in the form of atoms. The pot came to be from the existence of clay, that is to say, the atoms which were in the form of clay are