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beauty of all the animals of this world is because of the spirit. Once the atma leaves, the body begins to degenerate, it stinks and deforms. Even if the dearest person loses the atma, his place is not in the home, but in the cemetery.
Thus the beauty of the body is the atma, and only when atma resides in the body, is there any activity of the body. Thus it is established that atma is different from body etc., and not in the form of the body. Now the disciple had said while raising his doubt -
मिथ्या जुदो मानवो, नहीं जुएं एंधाण To this the Gurudev replies -
सर्व अवस्थाने विषे, न्यारो सदा जणाय,
SME TU FR144, I DET HGRU .....48
Child! You are unable to see any indication of the atma, but the characteristic of the atma is the spiritual presence that is absolutely apparent and totally different from others.
The jiva with a body, experiences all the states of the body. At birth there was the state of infanthood, then childhood, then youth, then adulthood and at the end old age. All these transitions take place in one body alone. The transitions occur and also get destroyed. When the infanthood passed came the childhood, and thus each state goes on getting destroyed and the experience of the following state gets enhanced.
Through all these transition states, one thing remains and that is atma. In fact it is chidrupa, permanent and of the disposition to know. Hence it has experienced all the states. Brothers! We remember the childhood or youth even today. The events that transpired in those times and the life lived in those days is all recollected. So all these states are subject to destruction and atma alone is eternal. The states underwent transition, but the atma remained the same, for atma was not in the form of the body. It was independent of all. Had it not been so, the atma would have got destroyed along with the various states that
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