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I am the Soul eligible - supatra jiva. How such a jiva's internal effort takes shape, is described by Srimadji -
आवे ज्यां एवी दशा, सद् गुरुबोध सुहाय,
à ale ufaului, Iİ Ye Year.....80
When the Atmarthi state arises, one begins to like Sadguru's advice, to find it interesting and pleasing. In the company of the Sadguru, a keen inquisitive nature awakens to absorb his good advice and whatever self-beneficial speech the jiva hears, he memorises it. The urge to hear it again and again awakens. Every pore of his feels the pleasure on hearing it. The heart dances with delight and whatever has been heard with such noble feelings immediately reaches within.
Brothers! What is the good of having heard, if it does not reach within! People do hear a lot, but do not let it touch them within. What is the greatness of the person who sits for a Katha - service - but does not let the Katha sit in him? It is like the story of the two statuettes. Both looked identical, very beautiful, but one was genuine and the other an imitation. The genuine one was worth a fortune and the fake was not even worth two bits. But the clever Minister identified them with the help of a wire. In one of the statuettes the wire went straight to the stomach when introduced in to the ear. In the other, it came right out of the other ear. Now tell me which was the genuine one? Can you? Yes, the first one was genuine and the second one fake. Brothers! Where do we fit in? Genuine or fake? We have to assign a value to ourselves! In Mumbai a brother told us once, “Mahasatiji! Whatever you say, but -
बे कान मळ्या छे सीधा शा माटे ? सुणी सुणीने सीधुं फेंकी देवा माटे !
What a blunder the creator of this body has made! Had he placed one ear higher and the other lower, then whatever we heard would not have escaped. Brothers! You hear the saints
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