Essentials of Samadhishataka

Author(s): B M Chamke
Publisher: S B Chamke Barshi

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This Jiva was in a pitch darkness till it had no experience of the soul nature. when the Jiva enjoys the pleasure arising from five sense organs and forgets the soul and so deprives itself of the eternal pleasure, the essence of the soul.
Once enlighted the Jiva experiences and enjoys soul and sinks into the bliss for ever. He is fully absorbed into soul - experience in both waking and sleeping conditions The realization of the soul is not a matter of sense perception, it can be apprehended by heart alone; self knowing process can alone see and know the beauty and grandure of the soul. Soul is an object of self-knowing process, matter of appre. hension by heart fanaa alone and no other means or way to catch up the global and fulfledged perspective of the soul is absolutely of any avail. Acharya proclaims this as an product of his own experience.