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certain degree, then why can one not make progress? One can do everything. Therefore the living being (jiva) has not become the interim state Soul (antaratma)! One is still the embodied soul (jivatma). One still does not know what the difference is between self (jiva) and Atma (Shiva).
It is just one thing: as long as one desires worldly happiness (bhautik sukh), one is a living being (jiva), and when he becomes aware of the bliss within and turns towards it, he is Atma (Shiva)! One is a living being (jiva), as long as one binds karma, and when he stops binding karma, he becomes Atma (Shiva)! Worship The Liberated Purush, For Liberation
Questioner: Now, the Atma is in sat chit anand swaroop (established in the blissful awareness of the eternal, the Self); whereas the living being (jiva) has five afflictions: ignorance, ego, attachment to pleasure, aversion to pain, and fear of death (panchklesha). So how can the living being (jiva) become sat chit anand swaroop?
Dadashri: It becomes like the one it worships. If it worships the state of eternal bliss (sat chit anand), it will become the embodiment of eternal bliss (sat chit anand), and if it venerates a criminal, then it will become a criminal. The nature (swabhav) of the living being (jiva), is that it will become whatever it adores or worships. If one worships the one who is liberated (mukta Purush), one becomes free, and if one worships someone who is bound, one becomes bound. Therefore, if we worship the one who has established in the blissful awareness of the eternal, the Self (sat chit anand swaroop), then we ourselves become that form.
Attributes of the New Changed State
Questioner: When one goes from embodied soul (jivatma) to the interim state Soul (antaratma), what notable changes happen?
