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Chapter 8: Guru's Explanation of the Soul's Everlastingness
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અથવા જ્ઞાન ક્ષણિકનું, જે જાણી વદનાર; વદનારો તે ક્ષણિક નહિ, કર અનુભવ નિર્ધાર.
IIS CII
Athavä Jnän Kshanikanun, Je Jäni Vadanär; Vadanäro Te Kshanik Nahin, Kar Anubhav Nirdhär.
Or, one who talks of the transitoriness
after knowing it as such, cannot itself be transitory; you can make sure of this by experiencing it.
Explanation & Discussion:
Since the pupil had contended about the transitoriness of the soul, the Guru points out that one, who talks of the transitoriness, should be existing. It is a matter of principle that one cannot speak without existing. As such, he himself cannot be transitory. Let us make this point a little more explicit.
When we term any thing as transitory, we mean that it undergoes change every moment. Now if one, who knows something as transitory, is himself transitory, he ceases to exist the moment after knowing that. In that case, how can he express that a particular thing is transitory? For expressing that, he needs to exist and it means that he cannot be transitory.
The Guru intends to point out that the pupil's argument of the soul being transitory is meaningless. Without the soul there is no life and without life no one can speak. The fact that the
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