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I am the Soul
183 “Yes, O Lord! Please forgive me! I always felt that there could be nobody more beloved to you than I, and I would not be able to bear it. But today I realised that you are residing in every pore of Arjuna. Even in the deepest sleep his hair is chanting your name. What devotion he has for you!"
Brothers! Krishna had settled within Arjuna. That is the same way in which Jineshwar should settle in our every pore and an unflinching faith should arise towards the Satpurush walking the path shown by Jineshwar. Only when an intense readiness arises to walk the path delineated by him, can we experience the soul. In other words it may be called Samyag Darshan. -
स्वच्छंद, मत आग्रह तजी, वर्ते सद्गुरुलक्ष,
Hufatia faj, FRUT TU TIET.....ple Srimadji has asked us to give up self-conceit, misguided opinions and vehemence. Brothers! This must be making you wonder why there is so much reiteration of the same matter. Since how long have we been reading of renunciating selfconceit! That is because, all the time that the jiva has spent so far has been in self-conceit. To rectify the mistake of several births does it suffice if we mentioned it but once? To get us to improve, it needs to be told over and over again.
The watch you use has to keep moving from second to second. That is, it has to tick. It ticks 60 times in a minute, 3,600 times in an hour and 86,400 times a day. If the ticking stops, the time gets stuck for us, for our count. To proceed further, the ticking of every second is necessary. In the same way the Saipurushas remind us again and again.
They say that you should awaken for your own sake. First accept that your self-conceited. Then you will realise that selfconceit is totally rejectable and that as a remedial measure, it is inevitable that you find a refuge at the feet of a Sadguru. Then walk the path shown by the Sadguru. That's it! If you do this,
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