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I am the Soul
519 bound only when there is the attracting flow of extreme passions. As the jiva develops, its chetana develops more, it gets awakened. Simultaneously, the result of the affected disposition such as attachment etc., also become extreme. As a result, while the destination was moksa through the process of karma nirjara with the assistance of chetana, the jiva on the contrary got bound in much deeper karmas and invited life in the lower levels - durgati,
The karma bondage of a jiva with minimum development is like a cotton thread, which can break with just a little effort. But a jiva which is endowed with five senses - panchendriyas - owing to its senses, mind, intellect and awakened chetana, gets so bound by karma as if bound by a coconut fibre rope (katha), from which it is very difficult to break out. Brothers! Think of the rope! The dry covering of coconut, from which all fibre is separated and again twisted together to form a long and strong rope, develops such strength that it can tie up anything or even draw up water from a deep well. But if its fibres get separated, it is useless. If the feelings of passion lying within are dispersed, every atom is separated, then they cannot inflict themselves upon the atma.
Brothers! The ability to do this is in the jiva itself. The panchendriya jivas – jivas with five senses - are as adept at freeing themselves from karma as they are at getting bound in them. Just as the infinite energy of the atma gets activated at the time of adding karmas and attracts karman mass, the infinite energy of the developed chetana in the human body, when activated in the effort of the natural disposition, dissolves all karma. The activation of energy for total destruction of attachment and avarice is possible only as a human. The devas do not have this ability.
The energy activated on the path of attachment leads right up to the seventh hell, while the energy activated on the path of detachment can lead right up to the destination of moksa. The Rajarshi Prasannachandraji had managed to activate these
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