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I am the Soul
ते जिज्ञासु जीवने, थाय सद्गुरु बोध;
तो पामे समकितने वर्ते अंतर शोध .
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The eligibility of an eligible jiva attracts the interaction with a Sadguru. Such a jiva may well be in a city or in a forest, but it keeps getting the guidance. It stops wandering hither and thither. The Sadguru acquaints it with the principle that is the effort of treading the proper path.
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First of all, that the self is the atma. And the world is inanimate. Atma is the only substance in chaitanya form - animate, the other five substances being jada - inanimate. Both chaitanya and jada transform through their own self transitions. One substance cannot transform itself into another. The chetan transforms within the chetan into chetan itself, in the form of the gunas of knowledge etc. of the self. Jada transforms within jada in the form of the gunas of colour etc. Both substances are totally independent; their abnormal qualities are independent. Chetan cannot do a thing about the transformation taking place in the jada. The Jada cannot do anything in the states occurring in the chetan. Thus, in spite of both substances acquiring and remaining in the same area, they cannot interfere in each other, on account of their being totally independent.
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Having received such a tuition from the Sadguru, the inquisitive sadhaka falls into deep deliberation. He goes into the depths of the own inner self to analyse the sort of thoughts that are prevailing within. 'The transitions occurring in the jada are not my transitions. I am different - independent of all those transitions. I am not in the form of dravya karma, bhava karma or nokarma. Chaitanya, independent of all these three, is my true natural form. I am not in the form of body etc. So the illnesses and troubles occurring in the body are not mine either. I am the pure substance of atma, in the true natural form of intense joy and knowledge.
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