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I am the Soul jiva is sensitivity. The jiva in its own region is sensing infinite knowledge. This knowledge is in the form of the transformation of the self, in the form of pure chetana.
Here, by referring to pure chetana, it is implied that there also is an impure chetana. It is a natural law that all the things that there are in the universe have an opposite. Therefore, by referring to pure chetana, the existence of impure chetana is involuntarily proved.
Let us first understand what is pure chetana. This chetana is called jnanachetana. The experience of the natural bliss of the self, which is not different from the atma, is the experience of knowledge. The state of experiencing the infinite knowledge that resides in the infinite spaces of the atma is jnanachetana. When knowledge becomes Samyak i.e. true, and experiences the atma, then it is jnanachetana and that itself is pure chetana.
The impure chetana is the false view other than the knowledge of atma. When the jiva ignorantly believes the attachment etc and the various states that occur because of them, to be its own, it is ajnana chetana. That itself is the impure chetana. It has two types – 1. Karma chetana, and 2. Karmaphala chetana.
The atma is jnanasvabhavi – it is knowledge in its natural disposition. Other than this, all other feelings are anatmabhava. It is itself generating all those feelings. The constant feeling of 'I do, I do' that prevails, is the karma chetana - where the intellect is into doing something. Just look at the ignorance of the jiva! It can do nothing in the par, yet it believes that things happen only when it does. If it did not do anything, then nothing would happen. Almost every jiva is in this illusion. It is a state like the dog under the cart. A poet has said -
हुं करूं, हुं करूं ए ज अज्ञानता grahent HR 4 TA aut....
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