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I am the Soul
Brothers! A jiva whose eligibility does not materialise even after finding a Sadguru, cannot achieve it. So many ignorant people keep saying, 'We do not have the grace of our Guru. He does not offer us anything.' Not just that, the ineligibility that lies within, even makes them say that the Guru is partial. He gives to somebody who is a favourite and does not give me anything. They make such allegations on the Guru but the fools do not know that grace is forever flowing from the heart of the Sadguru. If your receptacle is broken, if you cannot hold it, then how can you get it? Get the receptacle ready, and then you just cannot but get it!
Hence Srimadji says that unless there is eligibility, the Moksa marga - the path to Moksa cannot be struck, and unless you find that path, the malaise inside cannot be removed. If at all this jiva has a malady of the most severe sort, it is in the form of the bewildered self. The Self is unable to recognise itself. The mistaking of bodies etc. for the soul, is a great misconception. 'Who am I' is not known. In Srimadji's words -
कोण छु क्यांथी थयो, शुं स्वरूप छे मारूं खरूं ...
The jiva is ignorant of this. There is not as much knowledge of the Self as there is about the external form of the self and the relations of the inanimate. Why! Even in deep sleep, if somebody calls you by name, you wake up. You realise both that you have been called, and by whom. You recognise both. You recognise many things in the entire Universe. Some have such a keen memory that they do not forget some person they have met years ago. That recollection is fresh as ever, but the jiva has an illusion in recognising the self. Unless that illusion is cleared, how will it occur that 'I am the Soul' and I have to understand Dharma to attain my Self?
If I do not know who I am, then how will I know what I ought to do? Indeed, even if this jiva is observing external
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