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I am the Soul gets – five sense organs are also due to the rise of nama karma, the higher status is due to the rise of Gotra karma. Beauty of the bodily form is due to the rise of yudiacha qef shatavedaniya karma. Thus the form that we now have is only due to the rise of karma. Therefore it is an affected form. In the original true form of the jiva there is no manushya gati, no sense organs, no high status, no faculties of the body or mind etc. So these are all the perverse states of the jiva. It is extreme ignorance to accept these states as the true form of the self. This state is subject to decay, it cannot be permanent. While the atma is an eternally pure substance.
To get attached to the states so received, to love them is ignorance. There is no ignorance like placing attachment with the state received due to the rise of karma, believing it as our own and forgetting that the true original form of the self is pure, intelligent and eternally blissful natural disposition. The true original form of the self is moksa. To remain forever in the own atma is moksa. We have to reside in the Self. So far we have accepted the pudgala transitions as our own self and resided in them; coming out of those and stabilising in the Selfis the feeling of moksa. To attain such a feeling of moksa, the darkness of ignorance has to be destroyed and that happens only with the entry of the light of knowledge, not otherwise.
A small lamp is sufficient to dispel darkness. But it has to appear. The great poet Rabindranath has presented a beautiful idea in one of his poems - The shadows of the evening are lengthening. Sun is on his way to setting. There is a sadness on his face. He has turned pale due to the worries. The human world, animal world, vegetation world are all present before him. Somebody asked him, “O Sun Lord! Why is there such a sadness in you as you leave?' The Sun replied, “I am going. The entire world will sink into darkness. It will be some time before I can return. Who will do the job of providing light to the world until then?
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