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I am the Soul In the gatha too, this is what has been told: 'O Disciple! If your karta feeling and bhokta feeling get dissolved, then dharma will arise in your atma.' What happens with this dharma? He further says -
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When the jiva's karta feeling and bhokta feeling get dissolved, the effect on the intellect prevailing until now, that there is oneness with parabhava and paradravya, gets changed. It begins to exist in the own bhava with an unbroken feeling. Being stabilised within the self, coming away from parabhava and settling into svabhava is itself dharmu. Moksa is certain when such dharma awakens in the atma. For moksa is not some substance or some award coming from outside, but the complete awakening of the jiva's natural disposition. The state that results with the appearance of the svabhava of the jiva is moksa.
The jiva has been an impure atma until now. Brothers! Just think, the feelings that arise within us are either the mild or strong feelings of attachment etc. That is the impure state. That is the jiva's perverted form, and we have been accepting that perversion as the true form of the self. That is the blunder we have done. A totally pure atma should feel, 'How can these impure thoughts be mine?' But this has never occurred to the jiva. That is why it believes that this state itself is my state'. As a result it could not practice the tremendous effort required to manifest the true original form. But when the jiva understands that the state of attachment etc. is the impure state, that its own pure state is something else, then it attains a freedom from attachment etc. and at that very moment dharma, that is the jiva's pure natural disposition in the form of akarta - abhokta feelings awakens, and karta - bhokta feelings dissolve.
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