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I am the Soul
Only seeing and knowing is your true form of the self. Nothing beyond this. So the effort you have to put in is to get away from the feelings of attachment and aversion and stabilise in the knowing-seeing thoughts. For this purpose, you need a tremendous effort. The effort has to be as strong as the feelings of attachment and aversion which make the jiva to forget its natural disposition of the self.
The natural disposition of water is coolness. But if water is not taken down from the stove, and it remains boiling, then how can it cool down? When water is required in its fundamental natural form, either you bring it down from the stove or switch the stove off. Then nothing needs to be done! However hot the water may be, once it has broken away from the company of fire, it begins to cool down by itself. It may well take a long time, but water rests only after reaching its true original form.
Brothers! The natural moksa form of the atma in its allknowing, all-seeing state has got distorted due to the fire of attachment and aversion, as if it is boiling. Try just once to tell yourself that 'I shall neither indulge in attachment nor in aversion. So long as I have the senses, there are bound to be passions, but I shall remain a mere witness.' Then watch whether the true natural disposition of the jiva appears or not. Just as water needs at least 4 to 6 hours to completely cool down after it is taken off the stove, the jiva too needs time to attain moksa after it begins to practice the all-knowing, all-seeing state; moksa is not instantaneous. But once the attachment etc., have been subdued, or in other words when Samyak Darshan has been attained, it does not take longer than half pudgal transformation. The jiva's moksa is a certainty.
Thus, the disciple's doubt had been that since the jiva was stuck in a cycle of doing and then suffering good or evil karmas and then again doing them, it can never attain moksa. In reply the Gurudev has told that a jiva which detaches itself from the
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