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When the nature turns towards nijabhava...
The pursuit of the three gems draws the jiva towards complete akarta feeling. This akarta feeling is the true form of the self. In spite of not having been the karta, the jiva has been always cultivating the ego of being the karta.
When the true understanding awakens in the jiva, it realises the propriety of things. Its perverse beliefs get changed. The truth percolates into its faith. The eligible and inquisitive disciple has been able to awaken his conscience. The experience of the njiapada makes him aware of the propriety that resides in his self. Whatever he has been experiencing, he relates to the Gurudev. There is such unwavering faith in the disciple's self towards his Guru, that he believes that placing the self-experience before the Guru will enhance the continuity of that experience. That is why he is relating one experience after the other. After experiencing the pure eternal true form of the atma, he now relates his experience of the akarta feeling that permanently resides in the atmapradesha --
कर्ता भोक्ता कर्मनो, विभाव वर्ते ज्यांय; वृत्ति वही निजभावमां, थयो अकर्ता त्यांय
O Gurudev! I have now understood how deep the karta - bhokta bhava of the jiva is. Having contemplated deeply over this, I have experienced that the jiva is believed to be the karta or bhokta in many ways from the vyavahar naya viewpoint. For instance, the jiva is the karta of many things from the impure vyavahar naya viewpoint – like the maker of houses or cities, like the maker of pots and pans. If a person runs a factory, he says, I produce a certain thing. In reality, it is a machine, which produces it. But since this brother inspires that production, he says he produces it. This is according to vyavahara. This is the worldly practice.
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