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I am the Soul
767 You are the possessor of that nirvikalpa state - within which all Vikalpas have been absorbed. Your state is the absolute pure state of the atma. There is no doubt - shanka about it. Therefore you are nisshanka - free of all doubts.'
*Kevaljnana is all pervasive - it occupies the Loka-Aloka. Such power of kevaljnana is lying within you. Hence you are pervading the universe.'
"Pursue this pure true form of such a great and dispassionate atma, in your atma through your atma. Meditate upon that true original form.'
Here Gurudev has told that the Nija svarup (true form of the self) is the same as Jina svarup (true form of the Jina), and that it can be attained through meditation. The Jina form can be attained by meditating upon the state of Jina.
जिन स्वरूप थई जिन आराधे, ते सही जिनवर होवे रे, शृंगी इलिकाने चटकावे, ते जंगी जग जोवे रे . . .
Anandghanji maharaj says that when the jiva restrains the feelings of attachment etc., and devotedly pursues the great Jina with the goal of attaining the Veetaraag state, it becomes the great Jina. By the law of 'keeta-bhramar' (worm is bumblebee) it is said that the bumble bee builds a mud-comb, picks up a worm from green grass, stings it and dumps it into the mudcomb, and for days together hovers around the comb with a humming sound. The worm is suffering from the sting, but it likes the humming and it gets attached to it. It does not die of the unbearable pain but lies unconscious. The same worm turns into a bumblebee and emerges from the mud-comb to be mistaken for the same bumblebee by the outside world. By the same law, one becomes the great Jina by becoming immersed in the true form of great Jina and devotedly pursuing the great Jina.
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