Atma Siddhi

Author(s): Shrimad Rajchandra, J L Jaini
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram

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To me it seems that self-consciousness is emphasised here. We are conscious of all outside matters. But in addition to this we know that we are so conscious. It is this feeling of our knowing something about others and ourselves which proves the existence of ourselves. The body must obviously be separate from this, for the body never knows the soul, it is the soul which knows the body. In other words, the body is only the known, never the knower; but the soul is always the knower and sometimes by reflecting upon itself, the known also.
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.64 जे संयोगो देखिये, ते ते अनुभवदृश्य । उपजे नहीं संयोगथी, आत्मा नित्य प्रत्यक्ष ॥६४ ॥ दृश्यन्ते ये तु संयोगा शायन्ते ते सदात्मना । .. नाऽत्मासंयोगजन्योऽतःकिन्त्वात्माशाश्वतःस्फुटम्॥६४॥
Whatever unions (and resultants of unions) are observed, they are visible to the experiencer, the (soul). (The soul in the body is ) not (observed) to arise from the Union (of the elements of the body) therefore, evidently the soul (is) eternal.
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