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I am the Soul
269 a jiva, whatever he knows will not remain without appearing in his practice too. A wizened wise-man acquires a knowledge of everything with his intellect. He accepts the words that the atma is shuddha, buddha and niranjan (pure, all knowing and spotless), but drops the activity which are a means to achieving it. He does not accept that good conduct alone is instrumental in bringing out the natural disposition of purity and knowledge in the atma. His state is like the Washerman's Dog who keeps running between the house and the river and can rest at neither. Describing this state, Srimadji says -
ज्ञानदशा पामे नहीं, साधनदशा न कांई,
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Those who have merely acquired information about the Shastras but in whom the state of knowledge has not awakened are Shushkajnanis (wizened wise). Such jivas have already discarded the vyavahara and not reached niscaya yet. Their life is like a sail-boat without sails. It cannot get a direction at all. To get a direction, both the state of knowledge and the state of means are required within. But if this state has not been achieved, the jiva going about with the support of inanimate words gets engrossed in the topics of inanimate senses. Although it keeps talking about aspects of knowledge, detachment and so on, it is incapable of letting go of even one topic of the senses. It keeps indulging in them. The urge to indulge goes on becoming stronger and it gets stuck in it.
It believes practice to be totally discardable. So it misguides the gullible people saying that the activity of Dharma leads to bondage of Karma. Brothers! Let us ask those who say that Samayik, pratikramana, fasting and penance are all reasons for binding Karma, whether pujas, salutations, devotion and selfstudy are also reasons for binding Karma or not? What do we say to a person who talks without really understanding? What sort of Karma-bondage? The common man will believe that
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