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I am the Soul
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Not just that, the body, senses and life do not have independent strength. They are inactive. Only as long as the atma exists in the body, are they active. The moment the atma leaves the body, the movements of the body, the activity of the senses and the process of respiration all stop. It is commonly understood that the moment respiration stops, the man is dead. But it is not so. The respiration stopped because the atma left the body. The departure of the atma from the body and the ceasing of respiration happens simultaneously and hence we do not realise it. Respiration is merely the indication of the presence of the atma in the body, it cannot hold the atma in the body. If it were to be so, then with the help of Oxygen bottles, man could have lived for hundreds of years. But all these actions are meaningful only until the atma remains, not later. So respiration is also inanimate, active only as long as the atma remains. Later it is inactive.
Thus atma is the only animate - spirit. Rest is all inanimate. Except the atma, nothing else is of any worth. In this verse, these feelings have been beautifully rendered :
हुं तो आत्मा छु जड शरीर नथी (२)
शरीर मसाणनी राखनो ढगलो, पलमां बिखरे ठोकरथी मुझ वण ए शव पूजो बालो, ज्ञायकता नहीं सुखदुःखथी स्पर्श गंध रस रूप शब्द अने जाति वर्ग लिंग मुझमां नथी फिल्म बेटरी प्रेरक जुदो तेम देहादिक भिन्न मुझथी. हुं तो सूर्य चंद्र मणि दीप कान्तिनी, मुझ प्रकाश वण किम्मत शी प्रति देह जे शोभनिकता छे ते मारी जुओ विश्व मथी ... - हुं तो .
The poet says, I am the soul. I am not the inanimate body. The ultimate transformation of this body will be only into a mound of ash. It will go into the crematorium, and like a log along with other logs, will burn and turn into ash. It will not take long in getting strewn all over. One blow and the ash gets spread into the atmosphere.
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Ah! For how long are the joys and sorrows of this beautiful body? Only as long as 'I' that is the atma is dwelling in it. Once
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