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I am the Soul After attaining Samyak darshana, some jiva may attain moksa in the same bhava, while another might do it in the third bhava and yet another might do it in the fifteenth. Their births will remain very few. Therefore, it is necessary to follow the path that has been told. Instead of remaining in the narrow limits of religion-philosophy-community, we should be cultivating such conduct which leads to the diminishing of attachment and aversion. It may well have been told by anybody at anytime. It is not the domain of the followers of any religion or sect that attachment and aversion can be diminished only in their path. Well, it is just this that needs to be done. Gurudev, while explaining to the disciple, says -
षट्पदनां घटप्रश्न तें पूछ्यां करी विचार;
à ug-it wafia, Harf frufe ..... 80€ Gurudev is pleased with the disciple's contemplative nature. O Disciple! You have asked six questions for the six statements after considerable contemplation. I have tried to provide an explanation. It is on account of the spiritual ability within you that you were able to understand all the statements. All these six statements have an inseparable relation with each other. The path to moksa can be damaged by devaluing even one of these six. Properly and discerningly respecting all the six statements after understanding them in totality and in all ways, is the true moksa
path.
The first statement: the 'soul exists'. If the existence of atma is not accepted, then who is to attain moksa? Who will find the means to attain moksa ? By not accepting the atma, even moksa is missing.
The second statement: “Atma is eternal. If the atma were to be considered momentary like the Buddhists do, who would attain moksa? The pursuer of moksa would be momentary and would therefore perish. Then moksa would not be possible. If, like the
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