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I am the Soul Those who believe that there is happiness in experiences of the senses, need to realise that any sort of joy derived from the passions is followed by the sorrow of hopelessness, dissatisfaction, or disinterest. In fact it never happens that the experience of the worldly pleasures is incessantly joyful. Even while experiencing such joy, there are moments in between when the thoughts of sorrow, the feeling of sorrow do occur. Joy is not permanent there. Hence, all these experiences are ultimately leading to sorrow.
Besides, the experience of the senses only reaches the mind. It cannot go deeper. Mind is inanimate. How can the joy born under the inanimate - jada - offer any happiness to the animate - chetan? The happiness of the chetan appears out of chetan. Therefore, only when one gives up the refuge of the sensory mind and reaches up to the soul, can there be knowledge of the self, and this knowledge offers happiness free from sorrow.
Knowledge of the self is the recognition of the Self by the self. Acquaintance with the self, experience of the self, stabilising within the self. All these are stages of gradual progress. How far a jiva gradually reaches enjoying the bliss of the Self! It is like a chain. First of all there is the state of atmartha within, then is the Sadguru yoga, with the help of Sadguru's yoga there is good thinking, good thinking leads to knowledge of the self, waning of attachment - moha - due to knowledge of the self, and as a result - Nirvana. Thus the ripened fruit of the state of atmartha is Moksa. Therefore, the importance of true faith is unparalleled. Srimadji has repeatedly saluted such - Samyak Darshan - true faith.
I bow to the good samaritan - Samyak Darshan which has in a moment converted that knowledge which for endless time had been occurring in the life-resultant form into life-liberating form.
The jiva has the power to know. Knowing is the true disposition of the Atma. It knows through the means of senses etc. But this knowledge, being the cause of attachment and aversion, has until now been leading to the increase of the worldly
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