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such secrets. So, Brothers! Depth and stability are necessary even for experiencing the secrets of spiritual world.
Here, after taking the disciple on a tour from vyavahar samyaktva to niscaya samyaktva, Srimadji now tells us about how the state of the sadhaka who has once tasted the deep experience, will be –
af fast ayran, 3474a, wat, tita;
are a F rani, turche .....888 Sadhaka has attained bheda vijnana. He has personally experienced the different identities of the body and atma, like the clothes and the body. He has had and interview with the self. The manifestation of the state of true form of the self was in a flash, but the later there has been an incessant flow too. Yet the Samyak darshani jiva is still in the material world. It has not become totally free from karma. Therefore, it is bound to be suffering from the problems generating from karmas. In fact, even when the state of his inner self is splashed with the colours of self-experience, the self is forced to get involved with other activities.
Here, the state of the self - atma dasha, chitta dasha - that prevails in various practical situations has been told in a very simple and straightforward way. All the gathas of Atmasiddhi Shastra are unparalleled. Yet the picture of the state of a samyaktvi jiva that has been presented in this gatha is simply marvellous. One who understands this gatha properly does not have to go to anybody to find out what the state of his self is.
It first says that the experience of the own true disposition prevails. When? When the samyaktvi jiva is on the verge of retiring. When there is no other work and there is only retirement, at such times the entire attention is devoted to experiencing the true disposition of the atma. It goes deep into the own atma and the self is not involved anywhere else. The self begins to plunder
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