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I am the Soul
it. That is when the Gurudev describes to him the true form of dharma in a simple and straightforward style. He presents an experimental approach so that dharma manifests in the disciple
छूटे देहाध्यास तो, नहि कर्ता तुं कर्म;
the vaj dettT J .....884 Dharma is where there is an absence of bandha. When does this state of abandha appear in the atma which has been binding karma - karmabandha – from infinite times? Only when the yearning for the body goes! The realisation that I am the eternally pure soul, independent of the body drives away the feeling that body is the soul and rectifies the error of believing that the body is the self. Once the feeling of belonging -- mamatva- is removed from one body, and then the jiva does not get that feeling ever in other births. The feeling of belonging in a body, which is the closest companion, is greater than in anything else. Therefore, with the mamatva in the body vanishing, with the feeling that body is the atma - (dehatma buddhi), vanishing, with the ability to differentiate between jada and chetan arising, the feeling of Ime-mine that is prevailing over all para dravya - external things - gets dissolved. Simultaneously, the feeling that “I am doing? that is the feeling of being a doer – karta - also dissolves and the jiva becomes an akarta. The state of being an akarta is in itself an absence of bandha. The total absence of bandha for jiva occurs only in the fourteenth gunasthana. But the absence of the feeling of being a doer – kartabhava – begins from the time the jiva arrives at the fourth gunasthana itself.
The feeling of being the doer is mithyatva. “There is no feeling of being a doer in my pure natural disposition. I certainly am an akarta. When I am not the doer of my own natural disposition, of my own knowledge, not even of what is my own, then how can I be the doer of external feelings - parabhavas ?' As this sort of analysis begins to crystallize about the inner self,
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