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I am the Soul sown in the field. Those sown sprout and grow and multiply. But the other grains do not get sown this year; their turn may come three or four years later. Until then they are forced to wait. The ability to sprout came to be used after a delay. Other grains which are not reserved for sowing, go away into the food-cycle, they get ground and converted to flour and used as food. Was there no ability to sprout, in the grains which came to be eaten? There was, but they did not get the yoga of growth at all and hence could not grow in spite of having the ability.
Well, this is how it is in the case of nikata bhavya, durbhavya and the abhavya jivas. The nikata bhavya jivas get the yoga to attain the Siddha state through the early attainment of Samyak darshan. They prove their own bhavyatva -- Siddhatva by attaining their own transition into the form of Siddha. The durbhavya jivas get this yoga after going through several pudgal transitions and at the end they too attain the Siddhatva. But the abhavya jivas, in spite of having the ability to attain Siddhatva in the fundamental form, never get the yoga where they can awaken it. As a result they are never able to become the siddha.
Here Srimadji, after indicating that there is Siddhatva in the jivas, addresses the bhavya jivas and says, “Understand, have faith and then follow'. In other words, 'devotedly pursue the True Knowledge, True Faith and True Conduct and you shall certainly attain Siddhi’. But he has placed two preconditions for this. “You alone have to attain. The purushartha will also be your own. The upadana shall also be yours. Yet the power that is behind all these is that of the nimitta – the reasons. For such lofty deeds, the nimittas also need to be lofty and exemplary. Once these are adopted, Siddhi shall not be too far. Your unrestrained behaviour and obstruction - break free from these and conduct yourself in the command of the Sadguru and secondly become properly aware of the state of Jina, and attain it. Then you can be certain of Siddhatva.'
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