Book Title: Atmssiddhi
Author(s): Shrimad Rajchandra, Manu Doshi
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Sadhna Kendra Koba

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________________ 115 Ätmasiddhi Je Sanyogo Dekhie, Te Te Anubhav Drashya; Upaje Nahin Sanyogathi, Atmä Nitya Pratyaksha. Whatever compositions that we notice can come to the experiential level; no composition can, however, bring out the evidently everlasting soul. - 64 Explanation & Discussion: After explaining that there is no agency to witness the emergence of the soul, the Guru suggests to examine the compositions that we come across and find out whether there can be any composition that can turn out the soul. With all the scientific developments and inventions at our command, no one has brought out such a composition. When Dolly (the sheep) was cloned in Scotland, some people thought that it would be possible to create life. But what the scientists actually did was to discover a new mode of turning out a body, in which the soul could dwell. Such bodies are normally generated by cellular division or by fertilization of a female egg with a male sperm. Cloning merely provides a technique, whereby the male role in the process of procreation can be eliminated. That technique thus does not lead to the creation of the soul. If the soul could be created by composition or by any other technique, there are quite a few corporations that would produce it and the soul could then be purchased from the market. No one has, however, succeeded in doing that. The commentary given under this stanza (Vachanamrut # 718) is pertinent in this connection. It states: "The compositions that we witness are visible tothe soul, which experiences Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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