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I am the Soul
when will I be able to hear the words of sages?'; 'When will I get the opportunity of noble company?' and a strong thirst arises, that is called ' रोएमि'
This is followed by haft - "I do touch the principle.' What is the touch of religion? Who is so touched? This is a very thought-worthy aspect.
Among our five senses, the most sensitive one is the sense of touch, which is mounted onto our entire body in the form of the skin. Other senses cannot absorb their subjects and sense so well as the skin. Jiva can absorb feelings, good-bad thoughts through touch. Ah! In the Indian tradition of penance where ordainment is effected through Mantra (HCA) and through Vision (दृष्टि दीक्षा), it is also effected through Touch (स्पर्श दीक्षा). That is to say a capable spiritual Guru can take a disciple into a trance by a mere touch. The Sadguru has only to touch and the Sadhaka (disciple) experiences the Bhava Samadhi (HTC Hufet) - a state of trance. So touch is the conductor of good-bad thoughts-feelings. But this is only referring to the physical touch.
The touch we were talking about is the touch of the soul. The Guru's advice - principle touches the atma and the atma then experiences a sort of deep feeling. After all the capacity to sense belongs to the Atma, doesn't it? Hence, whatever principle you hear with RTA ' gets absorbed into the soul.
That which is absorbed into the soul, does not take long in coming into practice. It naturally percolates into your action. Hence it has been said, 41417H ' - 'I do practice religion under any circumstance'. That is to say, I practice all those principles which are worthy of my practice.
Where touch and practice get woven like the warp and the weft, only there does the fabric of experience get made. So long as the warp and the weft are separate, it is only a yarn under process. But when the cloth is ready it becomes a covering for the body. Thus faith, appreciation, interest, touch and then practice.
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