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I am the Soul
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external state of the Soul. Hence, if there is the effect of external feelings lying in some corner of the Soul, the Sadguru is certainly required to get rid of it. Identifying and serving a Guru is not for feeding the illnesses of mind such as worldly prestige, fame or status. A true Atmarthi looks upon all these things as illnesses. Brothers! Be it a child of 3 or 4 years or a grown up man, everybody wishes to root out the illness at the earliest. Nobody wishes that the illness should grow. They take immediate steps to cure it.
An atmarthi feels that worldly prestige, status and fame are all like illnesses. He is working to get rid of them at the earliest. He feels all this is the play of the Pudgal. Anandghanji Maharaj has said
कबहीक काजी, कबहीक पाजी, कबहीक हुआ अपभाजी कबहीक जगमें कीर्ति गाजी, सब पुद्गलकी बाजी आप स्वभावमें रे अवधु सदा मगनमें रहना
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What hasn't the jiva achieved in this wandering of the 84 lakh species of birth? He has got the powers of the Deva or has been revered in the human world on becoming a King - Emperor or a Lord. He has suffered the unlimited sorrows of the hell and the netherworld and has fooled the world with the meanest of the acts as a human, and sometimes earned name and fame by doing something which is good in the eyes of the society. He has indeed achieved fame, status, respect but all these are the games of the Pudgal. Papa and Punya are both Pudgal. Both are degenerative, both false. Hence, not wading in them, but being immersed in the bliss of the Self is our duty.
So, Brothers! The understanding of Atmarthi jiva is not for achieving respect or status, but to inspire the search of a Sadguru for the purpose of attaining Self realisation.
How well prepared is the soul of the Sadhaka for pursuing the realisation of the Self, when he returns with a Sadguru after searching for him, is to be seen later.
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