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I am the Soul
realised the self, it understood that I am not a substance of perishable nature. I am an eternal and indestructible substance - atma, independent of it.
The body is perishable and I am indestructible, that shows that my true form is without the body. In other words, I am beyond the body. My true form is similar to the Siddha. I too am just like the Siddha whose true form is just pure-eternal-indestructible true form of atma. There is no difference at all.
All the experiences until now were done with the feeling of the body being the same as atma, but they were merely external experiences. I have only experienced that my inner true form is so very different from the body etc. Had atma not been beyond the body, every time there was death, it would have taken the body along. But that has never been the case. When atma goes from one birth to another, it goes alone. Of course, the microbody - the taijas-karman body does go along. But it is only together until the jiva is involved with the material world. When it becomes free of all karma it is beyond all bodies and enters the abode of the Siddhas all by itself.
The disciple is gradually getting a clear picture of his own true form in his own atma. Upon a deep contemplation of the statement of the Gurudev that 'atma is eternal’, he has become aware of his own eternity and has realised that the eternal atma is ageless, endless, indestructible and beyond the body
The disciple is progressing in the state of self-realisation. The developing transformation is purifying the atma. Now, what the disciple experiences further, will be related later.
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