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I am the Soul
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reading or hearing once, but it has to be studied repeatedly. Only then will awaken the infinite power of knowledge of the atma. The fact that Srimadji had brought along the influences of previous births shows that the knowledge he acquired in those births was assimilated through repeated study and reflection. That is why it remained with the atma as an influence. And it awakened effortlessly in this birth.
If an ordinary person begins to think about a principle, his thoughts run for 4-5 seconds and then get stuck. Those thoughts also are not coherent. He does not realise what should be thought next. While a thoughtful person has the thoughts about knowledge etc., running endlessly in him. Srimadji also appeared with the influences of such deep philosophy and hence such an excellent composition could be done by him.
Brothers! Let us also listen to the voice of the Veetarag, contemplate over it and influence our soul with it. The reason why we do not have the influence in us today, is that in our previous births we have not done what we should have done. There we have enjoyed the passions and as a result those influences are very deep and the influences of knowledge and faith are not to be seen at all. In this short life there is a lot to be done, let us do it - let us influence the atma with the thoughts of knowledge and faith!
Here the disciple is so influenced and hence in his heart there is the curiosity. Having understood three statements there is now a doubt in him that atma is a doer. If it does karma then it must also be suffering them? There is bound to be an effect of karmas done! But what is the scheme that works behind the process of suffering? In spite of a lot of thinking this could not be solved. So he threw his heart open before the benevolent Gurudev -
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