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.... see with unseeing eyes!
The pursuit of the three-fold path is possible only for that jiva in whom a detached attitude towards the world has arisen. As long as he is attached to the world, the affection for the world does not reduce. The affection for the world in a jiva is such that he has never been free from the thoughts of the world. Due to his love for the world, whatever he did has been for the growth of the world.
Wherever, in whichever species - in the four gatis - the jiva went, the only application of the sensory abilities that were available, has been for the perpetuation of the chain of birth and death. How and what transpired in the earlier births is forgotten, but let us consider this birth and see what and how our activity has been since birth until now.
Consider, Brothers! A child is born, it knows nothing. It does not even know about opening its eyes. Yet the use of the senses begins. Have you not seen? A just-born baby is given juice-drops squeezed from a cotton swab, and the baby begins to taste with its tongue. The inherent knowledge of the food sense awakens and although the baby does not formally know that taste is sensed through the tongue, it does accept the juice.
In the same way, the use of other senses also begins. In a short while, it begins to perceive with its eyes. Hold any thing before it and it gets attracted. It begins to listen with the ears. You make some noise or call its name, it listens and turns to look. Thus it begins the use of all the senses effortlessly. Simultaneously, the mind also begins work. The baby laughs in its sleep. Why so? Apparently some reaction in its active mind reflects in the form of a smile.
Brothers! When we were babies, nobody taught us saying - Look, this is your ear, you hear with it; this is the eye, you see
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