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It appears due to familiarity with the body...
The pursuit of the three gems is possible only for those who have properly understood the path to Moksa. A wayward jiva, keeps wandering in a daze and hence the devoted practice does not occur to him at all.
In the Atmasiddhi Shastra' we are discussing the doubts of a contemplative and able disciple. The rising urge to know who his self is, has brought the disciple to face the Gurudev. The disciple is enlisting his doubts one after the other. Just to understand one principle of atma, how variedly the disciple has placed his doubts before the Gurudev. The Gurudev too with a similarly superlative benevolence, is desirous of clarifying the doubts of the disciple.
He is pleased within, upon hearing the doubts of the disciple. He is pleased with the disciple. A doubting disciple becomes worthy of benevolence! How come? A person who raises doubts has to be ignorant! Should there be affection or neglect for him? The Gurudev thinks - 'I have assumed that the worthy disciple is in command of knowledge. How deep he has contemplated over a fundamental concept like atma! He must have certainly gone deep into contemplation over the atma, for him to get such logical doubts.' The Gurudev is therefore, prepared to offer the clarifications.
In spite of such doubts, and in spite of the state of contemplation, the disciple is making a mistake somewhere. He is perplexed, that is a reason too. Hence, having read the depths of the human mind, and knowing which manoeuvre would work, the Guru makes the first attack on the mistake that lies within the disciple. He says -
भास्यो देहाध्यासथी, आत्मा देह समान, पण ते बन्ने भिन्न छे, प्रगट लक्षणे भान
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