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I am the Soul
After having realised the true pure form of the atma, the ego has to dissolve. Instead, the ego found here is more than anywhere else. Brothers! Pardon me, but when you see the ego of a person talking about niscaya naya, one wonders how the scriptures that came to him and the talks that he heard about pure niscaya, could be so transformed! How could they become instrumental in inflating the ego? The omniscient supreme soul has said in the scriptures, 'Whatever be the agamas, to a Mithyatvi they turn into a form of mithya'. One can see this statement practically proving itself in such jivas.
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Not just that! The moment they read some scriptures, learn some of them by heart, and with an expertise in oratory learn to speak well, their yearning for fame and status begins to grow. They desire that the society should admire and follow them, and that their glory and fame should grow. They set aside the God whom they used to believe and begin to run a sect in their own
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Brothers! How bad the times are! What a farce going on in the name of dharma! One has to pity the people who talk of grand things. That is why, Srimadji has said that such pitiable jivas, who talk about niscaya but the desire within them has never diminished, are destitute, impoverished and deprived. What else can be done but to have pity on them?
However, Srimadji says that the greater reason for pitying these people is that they do not know what they are doing. In their desire to hear that 'they are jnanis, they know it all, nobody else knows as much as they do and understand', they make the greatest blunder.
First of all they do not get to recognise the true knowledge. They cannot go to the feet of the sages. They cannot develop a feeling of awe towards the sages. They cannot pay respect and devotion to the sages. On the contrary, they try to prove the sages
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