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for seeing it. There has to be some means within. That is to say, atma itself can see itself.
To the disciple who believes that those things that can be seen with the bodily eyes exist and those that cannot be seen do not, the Gurudev says,
घट पट आदि जाण तुं, तेथी तेने मान;
FUHRS HA Fe, afat ang FIA .....44
O Devanupriya! You have seen, known and experienced the worldly substances with your eyes and other senses, and therefore you believe that these substances exist. But I ask you, who is it that is saying, “I saw this substance, and known it.' “I see this substance and am knowing it.' 'I shall see this substance and shall know it.' Who is this “I'? Is it the knower or somebody else? The body does not by itself have this feeling of 'l'. When the tongue is being used to say “I', then our aim of saying 'I' is not referring to the body but some other power other than the body. That is the knower.
The knower is the Soul itself. As mentioned earlier, none other than the atma holds the ability to know, and hence the knower is the atma. O Disciple! What sort of knowledge is yours? You do not believe in the one who knows and you believe in those substances which were known through this one. If you do not believe in the knower then substances cannot be known at all. But substances are known, and thus it gets proved that atma exists.
Brothers! The body cannot know, yet out of the practice of infinite time, we have come to believe so. We have done all activities believing the body to be the totality, and hence the sinful activity has increased. Therefore, it is essential to abandon the thinking that body is the soul.
The Emperor of Greece, Alexander was about to proceed to India with an irrepressible ambition of conquering the world. His Guru Aristotle was a philosopher. He was sad because of Alexander's destructive ambitions. Alexander could not to be
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