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I am the Soul
399
Son! As has been told earlier, the true disposition of both animate and inanimate is clearly different. Where the disposition is different, there the substance is also different. The meaning of disposition itself is the existence of the Self. The two whose existence is identified by their varying true disposition are bound to be different. Fire is identified by heat and water by its cool. Both have totally different dispositions and hence their existence is also different.
Indeed two opposing substances, in spite of remaining together forever, can never become one. This is the same of large substances or small substances. For instance, if in a large vessel large and small fruits and seeds were to be added - Coconut first, then apple, followed by lemon, then areca-nut, then pepper, then mustard and finally poppy seeds. If the vessel is thus filled and kept for a long time, they do not become one. It may be easier to later separate the larger fruits but the smaller ones may prove difficult. Why! You may feel played out by the time you separate the mustard and poppy seeds. But they can certainly be separated. They do not become one.
Similarly the atma has been occupying the same space along with the inanimate body and inanimate karmas from infinite time. But it has not become inanimate and in the same way the inanimate body and karmas have not turned animate. In Srimadji's words -
जड स्वभाव जड परिणमे, चेतन चेतन भाव; कोई कोई पलटे नहीं, छोडी आप स्वभाव, जड तो जड त्रण काळमां, चेतन चेतन तेम;
प्रगट अनुभव रूप छे, संशय तेमां केम ? The same matter has also been told by Shri Sahajanandji -
क्षीर जल न्याय अनादिथी, तुज संबंध जड साथ;
qur j - S - HTS HI, HI - FGT - GIGT 7 ...
Thus the Gurudev suitably solved all the doubts of the disciple and convinced him that the disposition of jada and chaitanya are totally different. The existence too of both the substances is different, and is prepared to remain so forever. Therefore chaitanya - animate
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