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Naturally into a trance!
This pursuit of three gems begets the blissful original disposition of the ultra pure soul - the abode of infinite bliss - ‘ananta sukhdham'. The great atma craving for the attainment of total bliss, attains totality. Self is total, knowledge is total and bliss too is total. The atma attains that independent bliss where there is no scope of any sort of incompleteness.
The bliss felt by the atma in the atma is the independent bliss, it does not have to resort to any other means. Whereas the happiness generated by the senses or the mind requires emotions or passions. A jiva seeks happiness through the remembrance of the passions which it has enjoyed, through the experience of the passions that it is presently enjoying and through the imagination of the passions which are yet to be enjoyed. That means, this happiness is counting on something, its dependent. Whereas the enjoying of infinite bliss of the self lying in the atma is free and independent happiness.
Ultimately this is the goal of the jiva. The tremendous effort of the jiva is for the permanent attainment of total bliss. Here, the essence of all the discussion, related to the six statements - 'Soul exists' and so on -, the doubts raised by the inquisitive disciple and the clarification offered by the experienced Guru, is the attainment of the ultimate and supreme goal.
Just as Gautama and other ganadharas have divided the thoughts postulated in the Agamas by the omniscient supreme soul Jineshwar, into four Anuyogas, Srimad Rajachandraji too has incorporated all four anuyogas in Atmasiddhi Shastra.
1. Dravyanuyoga - “Atmasiddhi Shastra- this very name is symbolic of Dravyanuyoga. It can be assessed from the name itself that the subject of atma would have been discussed in here. Where animate is discussed, inanimate is bound to be discussed.
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