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It runs towards the collection of yogic vision, but it knows that it is false water, giving a hand-clap and running away like this! Nothing comes into the hand, and the thirst of the poor deer, instead of being quenched by the futile labor of running, increases instead! Just as it is impossible for the inert object and the conscious soul to be related, yet due to the delusion of the wrong vision (Illusion and Delusion), it appears to be related due to the inclusion of the self-consciousness in the inert object. That same object is a mirage. Believing that such illusory water is real, the foolish living being, the deer, tormented by the thirst for objects, runs towards it with full speed, it throws a lot of dust for that illusory water, but that illusory water, which is very illusory, seems to be mocking the life, as if it is saluting from afar, it keeps running away! And due to this futile pursuit of objects, due to the sorrow arising from the cycle of births and deaths, the thirst of the living being, which is like a path, instead of being quenched, increases instead, and therefore one has to bear the great suffering of the cycle of births and deaths. - This wrong vision is the root of all suffering. It binds the living being in the wrong way, creates self-consciousness in the non-self, and makes the mind believe in the external object. This wrong vision, which is beginningless and in the form of ignorance, creates self-consciousness in the body and other things, which are the means of enjoyment, and the living being forgets its true nature and thinks, "I am the body and other things." Then the soul, corrupted from its true form, remains active through the senses, falls into the object, and having obtained that object, it does not know the truth of itself, it forgets itself! As Shrimad Rajchandraji said in his characteristic style, "You have forgotten yourself, in what darkness are you?" Such a ridiculous story is created!
"I am not my own form, I am attracted to the pleasant object,
I have turned upside down, with the water of the thirst for objects." - After the origin of the thought of Shri Devchandraji, great men like Vaddhamana Swami thought again and again that this living being has been born and died countless times in the four states of existence since time immemorial, yet its state of birth and death, etc., does not diminish, how can it be diminished now? And what kind of mistake does this living being continue to make, which has resulted in this much? In this way, thinking again and again with utmost concentration, the mistake that the Lord saw as a result of the relationship, has been said in the Jinaagama again and again; that by knowing that mistake, the living being becomes a seeker of liberation, free from that mistake. The mistake of the living being seems to be infinite, but the fundamental mistake of all mistakes, which the living being should first consider, is...