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I am the Soul
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मुनिगण आतमरामी रे मुख्यपणे जे आतमरामी
à tra Fichtet... sf stevitafuta While progressing beyond the fourth gunasthana, into the sixth, seventh, eighth until the twelfth, whichever gunasthana the Muni settles into, there except for the engagement with the Soul, there will be no other state and the stability and seriousness of that state of engagement with the soul goes on heightening which takes unto the state of Kevaljnana.
All the states before attaining Kevaljnana are those of the feeling of the inner soul. The great dispassionate, analysing souls which reside from the fourth to the twelfth gunasthana are all involved with the thoughts of the soul alone. The knowing - seeing state of the Soul which is understanding, seeing the entire world merely as a witness, becomes manifest in the activity of every single moment. This state of the inner soul is itself being a Muni.
Now the third is the Supreme Soul state. How is this state? In the words of Anandghanji Maharaj again -
ज्ञानानंदे हो पूरण पावनो वर्जित सकळ उपाधि, सुज्ञानी; अतींद्रिय गुणगणमणि आगर,
74 241474 Fi, ylit... yufa ... One who is swaying in the state of incessant feeling of joy of the constant infinite knowledge; whose all worldly joys are sublimated from within; who is devoted to the totally pure, absolutely stainless state of the Soul; who is naturally free of the upadhis like this entire world, and along with it this body; who in spite of being in the body is unaware of its existence; and due to experiencing the extra-sensory happiness and a state beyond the senses, in whom all the valued virtues of the Soul are
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