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I am the Soul Thus with the onset of the realisation of the true natural form of the self, after the deep deliberation over the substance of atma, a devotion – faith arises towards the great benevolent Gurudev, on whose motivation such a thought process began in the sadhaka. An interest develops towards his words. Until now, having been materialistically involved, and having mistaken the transitions in the form of the material world for the transitions in the self, the jiva, which was dwelling in the para, develops an interest like never before, in the preaching of the Sadguru. A great and unflinching devotion develops for the own self. The atma gets filled to the brim with feelings of devotion. In short, vyavahara samyaktva is attained.
Such a jiva, brimming with devotion, on one hand begins to alleviate the atma's karma through devotion at the feet of the Sadguru. While on the other hand, delves deep into the own self. He closes the external eyes and opening the eyes of inner self tries to analyse the Self. The jiva is always chained to the external world. It had never shown so much interest in knowing the own self, as it had until now shown in knowing and seeing what was happening outside. . . . But with the peaceful and interesting preaching of the Gurudev filling up the devotion, the sadhaka begins to explore the own inner self.
The first fault that is noticed is that until now the own intellect had been involved only in the par. All activity was centred around nourishing the par, without understanding the self. Believing the par to be the self, not for one moment could the jiva move away from the para and as a result it never faced the self. Now that such a great support like the Sadguru has been found, it is time to search the self, settle down in it and experience it. Such an irrepressible supreme thought awakens in the sadhaka and he begins an effort to achieve the experience of the self and taste it.
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