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forever is unchanged. The jiva does not lose its spirit even when it is in the nigoda.
So Brothers! We are the spirit and the spirit is always there within our body. This we should not forget. What Srimadji has explained here in the gathas is so simple that it can be easily understood even by the layman. We have all experienced various states of the life and at the same time have experienced that 'we' that is the one knowing it all, is always different and separate. Without any major effort or practice, we have experienced the presence of the atma in this body. As a result, the faith in the fact that atma exists has been strengthened.
The Sadguru has acquainted the disciple with the atma, body, senses and life along with their respective individual characteristics. As a result of which the faith of the disciple has been strengthened.
Since atma is minuscule, it is not apparent to the bodily eyes. There are two ways of knowing an indirect substance - 1. One's own superior knowledge - that is the acquisition
of the specific knowledge which enables one to know
an indirect substance like the atma, or 2. the words of one with such knowledge - it is necessary to
make at least one indirect substance manifest before him, so that the sadhaka can stabilise himself in the sadhana. The superior soul - Tirthankara too brought about the jati-smaran i.e. the recollection of previous births, in his disciples which led them to the knowledge of the eternal existence of the atma and they became engrossed in the practice of attaining the true and pure form of the
atma. Just as Meghakumar. The clarification of the doubts of the disciple is in this same direction. More doubts which the disciple raised on this very topic will be dealt with later.
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