I am The Soul Part 01

Author(s): Tarulatabai Mahasati
Publisher: Shri Gujarati Shwetambar Sthanakwasi Jain Association

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Blessings of Revered Panditratna, Tattvadarshi Pujya Shri Jayantilalji Maharaj Saheb Spring of the essence of Spirituality
I am the Soul. What a beautiful name for a spiritual treatise! The production is of a very high quality. I had earlier expressed my feelings once prior to the publication. But after I received the volumes on hand, I was left with a feeling that my words had been inadequate. The true picture of the treatise was clear once the volumes came to my hand. It was far superior to what I had thought. I was able to visualise the spring of words, with an excellent flow of thoughts.
I am the Soul – the treatise is great like a divine mirror, a treatise of knowledge, looking into which, one is presented with a vision of the true substance of the Self and one becomes aware that the tainting feelings and the atma are only different. A pristine sensation occurs that I am myself the Soul and the Soul is my Self.
There is of course, the relation with ‘Atmasiddhi Shastra'. Adhyatma Yogi Srimad Rajachandra has been infinitely benevolent towards the people by composing "Atmasiddhi" and enabling the people to swim in the ocean of spirituality. Many Sadhakas, Dravyanuyogi Philosophers and Insightful Souls have done ornamental work upon the gold of 'Atmasiddhi". And there are more talents unfolding everyday.
Our Tarulataji too has touched the same gold and done ornamental filigree work on it. There are several commentator – artisans who are fanatically sectarian and who analyse the original with a mixed approach of true and false views and do injustice to the original composer. While Tarulataji has kept her soul free of such mixed views and collected verses which provide a medium for equanimity and thus through her ornament like