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Constant, eternal, wishless, free, Knower, seer, such soul is me!
APPENDIX 3
I am a Soul, free, immutable, without a craving - All Knowledge and All Perception.
COMMENTARY
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I, the Soul, without colour, taste, smell or touch; existing from eternity and everlasting; distinct from even the body, not perceptible to the senses, but capable of being experienced by own innate knowledge when inclination to passions and emotions is curbed --- such a Soul, I am 'free'. That is, on none do my activities, happiness, or misery depend. I do my own deed and bear its consequences, and I shall attain Salvation by reposing myself in my own intrinsic nature. From eternity to the present day, I have wandered through innumerable births, and been over-whelmed by various emotions and passions. Yet my essential nature of consciousness has never wavered. I have not become non-living and shall be ever steadfast or constant in my nature. Devoid of all lust, wish, and desire, I am a pure conscious Self. Such a Soul, I am a knower and a Seer — of a Knowing and Perceiving nature.
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मैं वह हूँ जो हैं भगवान । जो मैं हूँ वह हैं भगवान ।। अन्तर यही ऊपरी जान । वे विराग यहँ राग वितान ।। ( 1 )
mein waha hoon jo hain Bhagwan, jo mein hoon waha hain Bhagwan; antar yahi oopari jaan, e virag yanha raag vitan (1)
I am what Supreme Being is, What myself is, that God is;
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