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I am the Soul
129 The arrangement of the Samavasaran - Haukur - the complete congregation of living beings, the Ashoka tree, the golden throne, the three royal umbrellas, twenty-four pairs of chamars, the halo, the God's trumpet, sprinkling of life-less flowers by the Gods, are all wonders created by the Gods. The rise of the unlimited virtue and extraordinary brilliance of the Arihant attracts the Gods and they set up all these. This arrangement is only for the Tirthankar - supreme soul, not for all kevalis. For nobody else can match the virtues of the Tirthankar.
Apart from these, the Arihant has four more wonders which we need to know about. But let us consider them later.
Brothers! It is beyond our capacity to describe the extraordinary wonders of the Arihant. How can we, who have a limit, describe the unparalleled and unlimited virtues? The Vedas too, where the Brahma-svarupa has been analysed, tend to wear out while eulogising. And in the end they say 'Neti, Neti - afa, tra - and give up. Brahma-svarupa is the Pure True form of the Atma. It is impossible to describe. Srimadji too has said -
जे पद श्री सर्वज्ञे दीर्छ ज्ञानमां, कही शक्या नहीं पण ते श्री भगवान जो; तेह स्वरूपने अन्य वाणी ते शुं कहे ?
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The omniscient supreme soul, knows and sees the complete true form of the soul through his knowledge and from every angle. But he cannot mention all that he saw and how he saw it. The question that arises is how is it that one who is omnipotent cannot say it? The answer is that when the omnipotent supreme soul describes the true form of the atma, to make us understand it he has to resort to using the medium of speech. We do not have such powers that we can understand while he explains. Feelings have a great power. Even among the worldly humans, the feelings of attachment and aversion are better understood through the expressions of mind than through words. So the feelings of the soul are also better understood through
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