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I am the Soul
you would try physiotherapy, the illness of mithyatva that is within will not go. Until the atma realises that it is itself a dispassionate atma in the form of satchidananda, the other sorrows will not go away. Therefore, the jiva has to first strive to attain samyaktva, through which mithyatva will automatically get dispelled.
After an illness is diagnosed, two things- namely medicine and diet, are equally important. If there is only one of the two, the illness cannot be cured. Both have to be administered in a balanced way. If you were to take the most advanced medicine, and simultaneously do not control your diet, the medicine can sometimes act like poison. The illness can aggravate and lead to death. Therefore, diet is a must. On the other hand, if you only regulate your diet and do not take medicine, even that is not right. Perhaps the illness may get contained but it cannot be uprooted.
Here Srimadji first indicates diet and then medicine. He says
गुरु आज्ञा सम पथ्य नहीं
Some jivas tend to act on their own volition in trying to remove mithyatva. That is why an experienced poet has said --
हरिनुं नाम रसायण सेवे, पण जो पथ्य पळाय नहीं
तो तेनुं फळ लेश न पामे, भव रोगो कदी जाय नहीं .
If you always keep taking the elixir of Prabhu's name, but do not follow the diet that needs to be followed in life; if you do not distance yourself from the flaws then that elixir will have no result. The illness in the form of the material world, which is affecting the jiva, cannot be removed. Hence, it is imperative that diet be followed along with the elixir.
Here Srimadji first mentions diet and then medicine.
गुरु आज्ञा सम पथ्य नहीं
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