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soul has decreased, is how the world is. Not a single subatomic particle (parmanu) has increased or decreased. Whether you burn them or do anything else to them, even then, from time immemorial, not a single subatomic particle (parmanu) has been lost or gained. That is how this world is.
So, the Atma has neither come, nor gone. This cominggoing is just the language of the intellect (buddhi). When you come into the language of Gnan, you will understand that nothing like that has happened. It is because of the intellect that things appear that way to you. Once the intellect goes away and the ego goes away, you are indeed free. It is the intellect (buddhi) and the ego that have caused all this, and that is why you perceive things in this way. Who Will Remove the Tangled Belief in
Circumstances?
When a person goes outside, where does his shadow come from? From all the circumstances (saiyogo)! When the circumstance (saiyog) of the sun comes around, the shadow arises, and when a circumstance of a mirror comes about, there is a reflection. So all this has come about because of circumstance (saiyog), and it has completely altered your belief. The Self (swaroop) has remained the same, but it is the belief of 'what has happened here? that changes.
A little bird pecks at a mirror, does it not? Does a little sparrow not peck at its own reflection in the mirror? Now a man would not do that. That is because he knows that it is his own photo (image/reflection) in the mirror. But the sparrow's belief is altered, so that it perceives it as another bird and keeps pecking away at it. But when the experience is prolonged for several days, the belief breaks. That is just how the belief has altered. The entire belief has become wrong, which is why the ego (ahamkar) has arisen, and also why the intellect (buddhi) has arisen. As the light of the intellect (buddhi) is turned on, the
