Atma Dharma

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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“I:” why, then, dost thou persist in the error ? Destroy thine delusions with the Teacher's Word, and turning thy senses inwards perceive thy true self with thy mind.
36. Whose mere thought vivifies the faculty of knowledge, destroys the darkness of ignorance and at once brings into manifestation a sense of freedom from all kinds of obligations and undertakings, together with a feeling of pure joy,--that divinity, the Living Soul, dwells in this very body; seek him there ; why are you running to other places in search of him ?
37. This supremely worshipful Light remains unchanged even when under the influence of anger and other kinds of karmas, as the sky remains unchanged in the midst of threatening clouds.
38. This very soul is the highest form of knowledge or truth; it is the one excellent form of belief; it is itself right action too ; and it is itself true asceticism.
39. This very soul is the only being to be worshipped ; it is the only auspicious object; the most excellent as well it is; and it is the only refuge for good men.
40. The illuminator of the whole of the literary sea, comprised in divine knowledge, the soul is the most precious gem; of all lovely things in the world, it is the loveliest.