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I am the Soul
anaesthesia, the chetan may stop receiving sensory signals from the body, but the prcoess of Karma bondage and rise is always
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This process has been operating from infinite time. Not even for a moment through infinite time has this ever stopped. Yet, if the jiva minds and learns how, and if it manages to lay its hands on the switch that can bring the chetan under control, then the jiva itself has the power to stop this process. The difference lies in the fact that to switch off the inanimate machines you can send anybody. If you do not want to go to the factory, then your brother or son or just anybody can be told to either switch on or switch off the machines. But in the chetan process it is not the same. Its controls are not in anybody's hands. Only the self can stop the chetan process of the self, that is to say, can exercise control over the process of bondage and rise of karmas.
Brothers! The other major difference between the inanimate machines and the chetan is that the machines can only do what they are designed for; can manufacture only a specific thing and nothing else. If your factory makes iron spare parts, and if you try to place cotton yarn on them and expect to weave cloth, it cannot be done. The machines have a limited scope, they cannot manufacture something that they are not meant for. While if the chetan process, having become transformed due to affected disposition, today produces anger, pride and such passions, it can also begin to produce the opposites like forgiveness, humility etc., if the jiva understands and puts in a strong effort. The jiva which has been transformed into the form of ignorance from infinite time, can attain kevaljnana in the flash of a moment. That mohaniya karma which was making the chetan wander in this sansar, will itself be uprooted and thrown out by the chetan. And the wheel of birth and death can be ground to a halt forever. That is the miracle of chetan! The wonderful strength of chetan! The total independence of chetan!
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