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Experience, attention and awareness!
The pursuit of the three gems takes us to the depths of selfexperience. The more the stability in the atma, the deeper is the experience. And as the depth of experience increases, so does the stability in the atma. Both are inseparable.
It is the same with the experiences of happiness and sorrow that happen on the platform of the mind. Whichever experience has been more touching to our heart, whether happy or sad, remains for a long period on our memory. Why! Some experiences are remembered right through the life and do not get wiped from the mind at all. But when some experience is superficial, which does not reach us within; it is experienced one day and forgotten on the next.
It is the same with the experience of the atma. The deep experience in the form of kshayika samakit can never be wiped out. It remains with the jiva forever. Even when the jiva attains moksa, it takes this along. But if the tendency of the darshana mohaniya is merely suppressed, that is if only upashama has been attained, then it remains just for a moment and then this state of experiencing the atma is forgotten. No doubt, Upashama samakit enables the experience of atma but it does not have the depth and stability of kshayik samakit.
Why! Even to understand the principles that are meant for the intellect, it is necessary to have a depth and stability in the intellect. Only intelligent people can understand the secrets of the inanimate world. Not all can manage it. Even in spite of a great effort, a man of limited intelligence cannot understand the inanimate principles. And the stability that it demands! Today scientists have unravelled the mysteries of the inanimate and placed them before the world. How stable and persevering have they been! Only when they forget the entire world and get engrossed in their experiments can such intelligent people attain
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