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I am the Soul
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In the same way, what will be the outcome of your serving a Guru who has not realised his self? Hence the poet continues, if one comes across a Guru who is endowed with Brahmajnana - TEIG - that is, one who has experienced the True form of the Self and recognised the True form of the Jina; who carries the true and firm belief that Brahma is the Soul, Brahma is the Supreme Soul, then the disease of rebirth will be uprooted altogether.
Brothers! Whatever be the disease, it has to be erdadicated from its roots. If it is suppressed as is done in today's medical system of allopathy, then it will spring up again like a tree with its roots undisturbed. Hence, a disease must not be suppressed, it must be eradicated from its roots. If we pursue the path shown by fraudulent Gurus, it will superficially seem as if we have followed the dharma, but it would never touch the depths of our inner self. Outwardly it may seem that the passions and sensual feelings are being controlled by it, but internally there is no purification. Medicine is that which removes a disease from its roots.
We too suffer from the disease of rebirth. That is, the tradition, of being born repeatedly and dying repeatedly, continues.
पुनरपि जननं पुनरपि मरणं We will continue to roam in this orbit of the world and will continue to do so until the seed of the life does not get destroyed. The one who gives us the strength to destroy it is the Sadguru. Hence, such a Guru should be served.
The Matarthi's belief in a Guru is something that is bound to drown him. When there is a fault in the belief itself, how will the understanding of the true form of the soul ever dawn? And in the absence of such understanding the feeling of devoted practice does not arise. As a result the wandering in the world continues.
Now Srimadji tells us the other qualities of a Matarthi.
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