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I am the Soul
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Brothers! What the Saint told Alexander, is what Srimadji is trying to explain to us, that the knower is sitting within the body, and he is separate from the body. The existence of the knower is as true as the existence of the substance known. But then to explain, why body is not the soul, he says -
परम बुद्धि कृश देहमां, स्थूळ देह मति अल्प;
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If body is to be believed to be the Soul, then this question does not arise. For Knowledge is the characteristic of the soul. It never separates from the soul. It can never be separated. Heat from fire or sweetness from sugar can never be removed. And if it is removed, then fire does not remain fire, it turns to ash, and sugar does not remain sugar. Thus knowledge too cannot be removed from the soul.
Now, by believing the body to be the soul, it should appear that a hefty body should have more knowledge and a lean body should have less. Knowledge should be equal to the body. Although this means that elephants and rhinos should have more knowledge than men, but it is not so. It is not true that a 300 Kg man has so much knowledge as a rule. On the contrary, sometimes it is noticed that even fat men are absolute idiots and a lean person has great knowledge.
Srimad Rajachandraji who gave us such a great treatise like Atmasiddhi Shastra', was so frail and weak in the body, yet he had great knowledge. He had even brought along the knowledge of his earlier births. In the same way we have seen so many great sages who in spite of a frail frame were known for their immense knowledge.
Therefore, it is proved that body is not soul. The body does not have the characteristic of knowledge. But the soul which sees and understands is separate from the body and is all powerful.
Thus Gurudev clarified the doubts of the disciple about the Soul. Now more details later.
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