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I am the Soul
birth to four-five young ones in a litter. But each one has a different Karma, a different papa-punya, different feelings of birth and death. That is one does not celebrate the birth of another nor does one experience sorrow over another's death. This only goes to say that a jiva may be born into any species, alongwith any number of jivas, yet it is created to live alone without company.
The atmajnani knows and experiences himself to be all alone. It is said -
एगो मे सासओ अप्पा, नाणदंसणसंजओ ।
सेसा मे बाहिरा भावा, सव्वे संजोग लक्खणा ।। I am a lonely eternal soul endowed with knowledge and faith. All the others - persons, things - have met as a coincidence. None is my own. All feelings are external.
One who maintains such a state of Self-experience is an Atmajnani.
The Sadguru has mentioned the second quality : ‘Samadarshita' - total equanimity. One, who under all circumstances can remain balanced, who can look upon all other jivas not from the body-plane but from the atma-plane and thereby avoid being disturbed by the rise of papa-punya karma and the instigation of attachment and aversion, is indeed a samadarshi.
Such satpurush - great beings - will always be equipoised under all circumstances. Joy does not make them bloom nor does sorrow make them wilt. Their course of life flows in a very placid manner. They are described here -
शत्रु मित्र प्रत्ये वर्ते समदर्शिता, 474-3711 ad JT TAHTA Hit; जीवित के मरणे नहीं न्यूनाधिकता, ha uitat que pagadt 9 a t..... 37 Brah ....
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