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I am the Soul
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Moreover, by saying - at the FTG MAT, saf saf yra - the atma is not in its original disposition, when it is a doer of karma under the influence of karma’, Srimadji is establishing that according to Vyavahara Naya, atma is also a doer of karma. The moment atma ventures out of its own natural disposition, it begins to do karma. Venturing out of the natural disposition is going into affected disposition. The transition of atma's knowledge is continuous on some subject or the other. It is best if it is in the natural disposition, but if it is not, then it is bound to be in an affected disposition, in the inanimate disposition. It takes the five senses and the mind as the sixth, for company and wanders around the world.
Actually, the pitiable inanimate mind wanders anywhere. It has no control over things. What feelings can the inanimate have? It does not have to go anywhere and enjoy any thing. Whatever the mind comes across, it cannot enjoy them. But the feeling is in the knowledge of the atma. Atma uses the mind as a medium and wanders about in fourteen Rajjulokas, and then the mind has to bear the scorn. Anandaghanji Maharaj has also censured the mind. He says -
Tutit, arte, cafa, Juus, 20 YTT FTE,
साप खाये ने मुखडं थोथु, एह उखाणो न्याय - हो कुंथुजिन
This mind, unmindful of whether it is night or day, whether a place is inhabited or deserted, unworried about the limits of heaven or hell, keeps wandering everywhere. The mind gets nothing out of this wandering.
Brothers! Anandghanji Maharaj has said the same thing. What does the inanimate mind get? The transition of knowledge turns perverse and goes bouncing about along with the mind. As a result it also derives some feeling that instigates affected disposition. The feelings of attachment etc. are nurtured. The jiva in its affected disposition seeks happiness in them. But the
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