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I am the Soul
319 could not identify you.” “How is that?’ ‘There were two chandalas - one by birth and another by ignorance!
Brothers! The affected disposition like anger etc. are the form of chandala. When these take over the charge of your head, all consciousness is lost. Atma, which is supposed to be in the form of knowledge, turns into the form of anger. As if atma and anger have merged into one. Hence, keeping this transition of the atma in view, the scriptures have mentioned eight types of atma. Although, in fact, all atmas are just the same. There is no difference of any sort in them. It is said -
एगे आया Atma is one. The infinite number of Atmas in the universe are all one from the view of the true form of their self. The siddhas and the worldly lives have the same fundamental state. The difference becomes manifest in jivas with Karma, and hence they are said to be eight types - 1. Dravya atma, 2. Kashaya atma, 3. Yoga atma, 4. Upayoga Atma, 5. Jnana Atma, 6. Darshan atma, 7. Charitra atma and 8. Veerya atma.
All souls are Dravya almas. When the jiva transits into the disposition of anger and other passions, and say takes the angry form, it is called Kashaya atma at that time. Similarly, when it transits due to the effect of the yogas of the mind, speech and body, then it is Yoga atma. When it transits into the upayoga form, it is upayoga atma. And thus, when it transits into the forms of jnana, darshan, charitra and veerya, it is named accordingly.
Here, the internal state of the atma, which has taken the affected disposition of anger etc., is also like anger. So long as the Atma is in this affected disposition, the eligibility of penance does not arise in it, and the Moksa murga is elusive. But the jiva who has, through a concerted effort, attained the introvert state which is the eligibility for attaining natural disposition, is an
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