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determine to acquire one virtue from his life and then decide whether or not to gamble as a result of the evil thoughts.
Srimadji said that an Atmarthi jiva absorbs the advice of the Sadguru. Therefore a stream of good thought that is true thinking arises in him. Thoughts which lead to contemplation. Everybody thinks, but to turn them into the form of contemplation on the true path, is a different story. Where there is contemplation there is a churning. If having heard an advice about the Soul, it is churned within, then it throws out the nectar of self-experience and that nectar is the power that lends strength.
In the contemplation of the atmarthi sadhaka, the chanting of 'I am the soul' goes on day in and out. I am the Soul in the pure true form, the perpetual substance of incessant life form. This thinking takes him towards the state of experience, that experience which is the means of true happiness. Hence Srimadji has said that good thoughts that generate happiness arise. If man remains stuck in the mess of evil thoughts, then he will become a cause of sorrow. The fruit of evil thoughts can never be good. Like the thought shall be the bond of Karma and like the Karma shall be the result. Therefore, we have to repeatedly assess our thoughts and if there is any lowly element in it, we should remove it and learn to harbour satvik thoughts. For that, the advice of the Sadguru has to remain within. That state has to be achieved.
Thus the jiva who has achieved this state finds the path and progressing on this path leads to attainment of the goal at the end.
Where and when? This will be dealt with later.
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