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I am the Soul
शाता पामे सघळां प्राणी gait yeu atent arust ....
The unattached Deva alone can show the true path to all the jivas. Where there is attachment there cannot be an impartial intellect. It is our own experience that wherever we have an attachment, we liken that person's mountain like fault to a mole. And where there is aversion, we make a mountain of a mole. A view that is tinted with attachment and aversion can never be impartial, and hence Deva is always Veetarag - bereft of all passions.
Maturthi jiva does believe such a supreme soul bereft of all passions to be Deva, but he only accepts the external form. Since the Arihant Supreme Soul is born with the unlimited accumulated punya of previous births, Devas and others are in his service. They create a beautiful Samavasarana. The impact of the Prabhu is enhanced. In fact, the thirty-four atishayas and thirty-five types of speech is also due to the punya. Apart from these, Prabhu's body too has an unparalleled and out-of-this-world aura. The unmatched beauty of his body not only attracts the humans, but also the devas and devis.
Shri Mantungacharya, while elucidating the reasons for the beauty of Prabhu's body, says in the Bhaktamar Stotra -
यैः शान्तरागरुचिभिः परमाणुभिस्त्वं, निर्मापितस्त्रिभुवनैकललामभूत ! तावन्त एव खलु तेप्यणवः पृथिव्यां,
यत्ते समानमपरं न हि रूपमस्ति ।। १२ ।। O Prabhu! Your physique is created out of the best atoms brimming with the essence of peaceful emotions. You have absorbed all those atoms, which were the best in the three worlds. Now not a single such atom is left. As such nobody else has the unparalleled beauty as yours.
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