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I am the Soul is indicating the qualities of a Matarthi and where all he has gone wrong.
In the third gatha at the beginning, two types of jivas have been mentioned - 1. Ritualistic (Jada Kriyavadi) and, 2. the ones professing the wizened wisdom (Shushkajnanavadi). Then the faults of the Ritualistic jivas have been mentioned - namely, believing an Asadguru to be sadguru, attachment with family guru, negligence in spite of the opportunity to be with Sadguru, imagining the true form of the Jineshwar in his external appearance alone, believing the diversions like the Deva form of life, to be Shrutajnana, and insistence that the appearance and the path chosen by himself are the ones that will lead to liberation. Following the Niscaya Naya only in words, giving up of good conduct, the non-attainment of Jnanadasha or Sadhanadasha and above all the ego - these are the faults of the Wizened Wise. It is due to these faults that these jivas have not been able to attain the true path.
Having enlisted the various faults of both these types of jivas, now Srimadji tells us where the two have gone wrong, in one gatha -
नहि कषाय उपशांतता, नहि अंतर वैराग्य,
Huuj 7 qera, g haríf guire.....3?
Sages with compassion simply shower pity on such unfortunate jivus. The pure hearts of the Sages are filled with compassion when they see the jivas who are lost due to the rise of their earlier Karma. And they say this is the misfortune of the matarthi.
Brothers! When and in what do we believe our misfortune to be? If we do not get the pleasures and comforts of the material world, wealth, children and family, fame and success, then it immediately makes you feel - “How unlucky I am, what cussed luck, that I have not got this and that! The achievement of material and worldly comforts is good fortune!" These are the beliefs, and these things make us cry on many occasions by remaining
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