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I am the Soul For the manifestation of this Veetaraag state, one has to experimentally contemplate incessantly over the pure original form of the atma.“ 'I am the Soul' -- not the body. Body etc. are all different from me. Karmas are different from me. Affected disposition is different. I am not in the form of attachment etc. but am in the form of knowledge. I am merely a witness.” Such thinking will sometime lead to the awakening of joyful results and through them when the atma is touched, the resulting Veetaraag state leads first to samyakdarshan - Veetarag darshan. The progress of the same state leads to the attainment of complete akashayi form, its experience and its enjoyment – that itself is the complete Veetaraag state.
Thus for the demolition of both darshana mohaniya and charitra mohaniya, bodhibija and Veetaraag state are the unfailing means. Here the benevolent Gurudev has stated the unfailing means for removing the passions of mohaniya, where there is no doubt that their application will remove the passions. Here there is no experimentation that says 'try this method out. If you succeed nothing like it, if you don't, come back to me and I shall show you another way'. Brothers! Don't the present day doctors keep experimenting with your body? Take this medicine for three days. It should cure you. If it doesn't then there will be another. And invariably that is what happens. When you go again, he changes the medicine and this happens thrice. The medicine doesn't work and the body is engulfed with pain and it even turns fatal.
But here, Gurudev doesn't say so. He has in fact told us the failsafe methods. The medicine is as powerful as the malaise is terrible. The pain has to run away, it just cannot remain. There is no give in this method. In fact, this cure is so perfect that once the Veetaraag state is attained, then the malaise of attachment etc. will never enter the body. It is indeed a dependable solution.
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