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I am the Soul rummages through the garbage and eats leftovers. But in reality, even he does not like to eat such food.
So it is proved that the entire human race despises leftovers, hates leftovers. They do not like leftovers. Whatever be the worries, but leftovers are not wanted!
Srimadji is aware of this state of mind in the humans. That is why he has compared the transitions of the inanimate world with leftovers, and has struck a massive blow on our desire and possessiveness, on our ego and conceit.
The entire world is like a leftover substance taken and left by some jiva because of the transitions of the paramanus. All substances coming to you, whether they are costly or insignificant, are all somebody's leftovers. Whether it is a diamond worth 125,000 brought and fixed into a ring, worn on a finger and flashed around, or a bungalow costing a million where you live in pride, whether you are walking in the clouds wearing a 2,000 worth saree, or you have just gobbled rich food with some thirty-two varieties and are now making fun of the poor, whether you are blinded with the wealth worth billions that you have amassed, it is all leftover in the plate! Nothing better!
Brothers! Just try telling a person who is making faces looking at a beggar eating leftovers, that whatever you are enjoying, thinking it to be fresh, and are wallowing in pride, is all leftovers. There is no difference in that beggar and you. He is eating leftovers and so are you. Why, what he has is the leftover from one person, but what you are taking has been released infinite number of times by infinite jivas of the entire world. Then what are you proud of?
If you understand this principle, then all the moha that we have for the poudgalika substances, and the pride we harbour after acquiring them, are both demolished in one moment. How can one, who is truly a jnani person, who has understood the
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