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I am the Soul
Brothers! The atmas in pursuit of the infinite have attained the infinite. All the energies manifested by the kevali are infinite! Infinite knowledge, infinite faith, infinite strength and infinite bliss. Only one who attains the infinite can know the infinite substances, can know the infiniteness of the substance, can measure the infinite energies of the substance!
What can the limited scientists do to measure the paramanu which the Kevali Paramatma has seen? That is why the Kevali Paramatma has said that the paramanu cannot be created by anybody and can neither be destroyed. The destructible substances that are visible are all skandhas of paramanus. Skandhas break up, they get destroyed and then remain in this Universe in their ultimate state, in the form of paramanus; they have remained so from infinite time and will remain so for infinite time.
Gurudev is saying to the disciple, “O Child! I have told you about the most minute form of the inanimate. Now I ask you that if according to your belief, the animate - atma gets destroyed, then what will be its transformation? You tell me now!"
The disciple was perplexed. What can be the answer to Gurudev's questions? Then he recollected the question which Ganadhar Gautam had asked Prabhu Mahaveer. Gautam had asked, “When was this jiva created? Out of what?” The kevaljnani Tirthankar Mahavir began to unfold the layers of past one after the other. He went into infinite time but could not ascertain out of what the jiva was formed. In his knowledge all he found was the self and natural existence of the atma. Prabhu told Gautam, “I do not see the creation of the jiva in my knowledge at all! Therefore, it is without a beginning. That which has no beginning is anadi, and that which has no end is endless - anant.
Gautam had another question, “Prabhu! Then when does the jiva end?” And the omniscient Prabhu began to unfold the
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