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I am the Soul
529 of the infinite. As such the jiva had to repeatedly wander in sanyoga and viyoga.
Here the learned Gurudev says that the jiva does not come on the true path due to such momentary flashes of viyoga. But when there is extreme viyoga, the jiva manages such a tremendous effort that there is never any sanyoga again. Once all the sanyogas with karmas are abandoned, there remains no necessity to get into any body. In the absence of a body, the sanyogas of senses, mind and intellect etc., do not happen. The atma attains the pure, true natural form. That form is called Siddhapada, Moksapada or the eternal natural form, where the jiva has only to enjoy the bliss of its original disposition for infinite time.
In this gatha, siddhapada has been described as eternal because the Jain tradition believes siddhi as infinite. Once a jiva is liberated, it does not have to take birth again, or enter this world in either human or any other form. If this were not the case, then moksa would have no meaning. The whole tremendous effort is to avoid the repeated births. And if even after liberation there remains a need to be born again, then bless this Moksa! Here the jiva which becomes a siddha, attains moksa, is for eternal time; to remain in the eternal state for ever. Bereft of all sanyoga and viyoga, only the unwavering, unmoving eternal state is moksa. That is why, Mahayogi Anandaghanji Maharaj has sung in the soulful bliss -
रीझ्यो साहेब संग न परिहरे रे,
HTI Hifa aria ...# .... Attaining the state of the supreme soul, which has neither a beginning nor an end, is itself the enjoyment of the soul. Let us understand this infinite.
The various relations with the jiva can be known as four - 1. Anadi Ananta, 2. Anadi anta, 3. Adi ananta, and 4. Adi anta.
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