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I am the Soul
For a samakiti jiva, the awareness of the own atma is more than the name of the body; for the atma has no name, it has no age. It is just the self. The awareness of the self is always there for the self. It should be there. The jiva is lost in wandering and therefore is not aware that 'I am the soul'. But the samakiti has come out of the wandering. It has already deeply experienced the atma. It has realised the self. That is why, even in the state of sleep it has the awareness of the true original disposition of the atma. Atma is never forgotten. That is why the pratiti dhara in sushupta state (the flow of awareness in the state of slumber) abounds.
Thus, whatever the state a samakiti atma may be in, while in the life's activities, it never forgets the self – the atma. Experience, attention and awareness always remain. Sages have said -
निवृत्ति दशामां अनुभवधारा! प्रवृत्ति दशामां लक्षधारा!
सुषुप्त दशामां प्रतीतिधारा!
The involvement of such a jiva is never in the external. That is why it is said in the gatha -
वृत्ति वहे निजभावमां परमार्थे समकित
The involvement of this jiva flows only in the thoughts of the atma, in the own inner self. And that state is itself the ultimate samakit state. The great poet Banarasidass has expressed the same sentiments -
स्वारथ के साचे परमार्थके साचे चित्त, साचे साचे बैन कहै साचे जैनमति है; काहू के विरुद्ध नाहि परजाय बुद्धि नाही, आतम गवेषी न गृहस्थ है न जति है; सिद्धि रिद्धि वृद्धि दीसै घटमें प्रगट सदा, अंतर की लच्छिसौ अजाची लच्छयति है;
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