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Contemplation upon the Self
I am the Soul. Sahaj Swarupi Atma – The Soul naturally in its own true form ... dense with chaitanya.... I am naturally in my true form. My true and pure form is not artificial. That is to say, nobody has created my true form. Nobody has sculpted me ... nobody has built me. I was not formed by anybody's making. I am self generated. I am in my natural form.
My form as knowledge ... is my own fundamental nature, My true original form. Similarly, the life energy - chuitanyuta ... That abounds in mc, is also natural. Nobody has infused chetuna into this Soul. The Soul is life itself, in its fundamental form. It has not turned chetan from jada. Neither has it turned chetun on account of juda. It is not a substance deriving out of some other. It is chaitanya itself, within itself, in its own way. All the visible inanimate substances of this world Are made by somebody, are created by somebody. What is made, is also destructible. Where there is creation, there is also destruction. I was never created, as such I am indestructible. I naturally AM. The infinite characteristics abounding in me ... are also natural. The chetan substance of mine . and the transitions of the characteristics of Knowledge etc., are natural too.
What is artificial, unnatural ... is Attachment and Aversion. They are the passions ... they are the aberrations ...
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