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The entire world is like left-overs ...
Devoted pursuit of the three gems, enables you to understand the proper true form of the two substances of jada and chetan and also helps you experience the difference between the two. Jada is jada (inanimate) and chetan is chetan (animate). Despite knowing this, it is essential to know the characteristic transitions of the two substances.
Srimadji is explaining that, the one, who has realised the atma and recognised the chaitanya in its proper true form, which then acts as an eye-opener, looks at the jada substance from a very different viewpoint, as against the way that the entire world does. Its relation with the entire inanimate world would have changed. The sharp vision of the jnanis reaches the depths of the jada substances. It catches the transitions within the jada that take place every moment. As a result, the approach of a jnani towards life also changes. It begins to lead a life diametrically different from what it lived earlier. With a change in viewpoint, the entire universe looks different.
Srimadji, while telling us how such jnani jivas evaluate the poudgalika substances, says –
सकल जगत ते एंठवत, अथवा स्वप्न समान,
fag Frit am, arcat Use .....880 Ignorant man measures the entire world only with the measure of his intellect. “The world is only that which is encompassed within the limits of the intellect. Nothing more special than that.' Such is the ignorant belief of man. Nevertheless, intellect, however high it may be, is but a limited substance. It cannot break the limits of visibility and go beyond into the unlimited. That is why, an ajnani cannot know of the substances beyond the limits of intellect. There are infinite substances that exist beyond the intellect, which are outside the
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