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I am the Soul
465 One more of the disciple's doubts remains : '... or is it the inspiration of Eshwar’, so saying he is trying to say that the doer of karmas is not the jiva but the Eshwar. Gurudev clarifies that doubt -
कर्ता ईश्वर कोई नहि, ईश्वर शुद्ध स्वभाव;
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First of all it is essential to consider as to who can be called Eshwar - God. Those philosophies, which believe in God, believe Him to be the Supreme and a unique power. Indeed, one who has acquired a vast aishwarya - wealth, is Eshwar. Wealth is not material riches but the spiritual, unlimited, blissful state - that is the aishwarya of Eshwar, the wealth of God. One who has attained such a state has attained the pure, most pure natural disposition of the self. Eshwar, who possesses such a power, will not transit into the affected disposition for even a single moment. He always enjoys the bliss of the own infinite wealth.
Brothers! One who has attained the ultimate pure state is always in the wonderful trance of the supreme bliss. He is so engrossed in enjoying it that he does not desire to come out of it at all. The joy that even a multimillionaire holding immense material wealth cannot experience, is the joy that Eshwar experiences. This is because a man may have unlimited wealth, but he cannot enjoy all of it. There is a limit to whatever he can enjoy out of the wealth that he has. There may be the urge within him to enjoy everything, but time and energy fall so short that he just cannot. But the pure atma, which has attained the spiritual wealth, enjoys all the spiritual prowess, that is, it is experiencing the various characteristics like infinite knowledge etc., from time to time. Indeed, this experience is so deep that the atma does not come out of it at all.
When the true form of Eshwar is such, then why would He abandon His own bliss of the self and become the doer of the
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