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feelings. But we guileful jivas cannot understand without speech. Hence, whenever the Omniscient explains, he does it through speech. And language is limited, so how much can he explain? As such the Omniscient Supreme Soul too could not make us understand. So Brothers! How can an ordinary person like me state the virtues of the supreme soul?
Hence, it has been said - 31747 TER HE TRE 31 UT... - Whether you call it the true-form of the Soul or the true-form of the Arihant, it is something that can only be experienced. One who experiences such a form within oneself, alone can understand that true-form! Kabir has said - tj 1 gs - The dumb man’s jaggery! If a dumb person is fed jaggery and then asked to explain how it tasted, you will not get a reply. Why go that far! You who eat Ghee daily - if I were to ask you, "What is the taste of Ghee?', what would you say? You cannot say. Only the one who eats can know! That's it! Only the one who experiences the Soul can understand how the true-form of Jina is. It cannot be expressed by writing down or through speech.
Kabir, while telling us about the impossibility of the expression of the Arihant's infinite wonder, has said -
सब धरती कागज करूं, लेखनी करूं वनराय, सात समुद्र मसि करूं प्रभु गुण लख्या न जाय । “I could make paper of the entire land, Quill out of all the forest there is, I could make ink out of the seven seas, and
Yet could not describe how virtuous the Lord is.”
Thus, we made an attempt to understand the true-form of Jina that is impossible to state in speech. Who else but a Sadguru could explain such a superlative true-form? Hence, it is said that the Sadguru's wonders are infinite. And until the true-form of Jina is known, how can the effort to achieve it be made?
Now, the description of the four extraordinary features of the Arihant in the next.
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