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I am the Soul The proper faith that prevailed within Srimadji is seen here. He had said in the initial pages
प्रत्यक्ष सद्गुरु सम नहीं, परोक्ष जिन उपकार In proving this statement, if he had saluted the Sadguru at the outset, he now salutes the Jinavar while making the closing invocation. He dedicates his total faith at the feet of the Jineshwar. The benevolence of the Jineshwar Prabhu has filled his heart. He has experienced the unlimited compassion of the Jinavar. Others cannot feel what has been felt from experience; as such what will the others know?
Today there are many who have forgotten the Arihant Parmatma and the Sarvajna, and are blowing their own trumpets. However, they do not know of the unlimited benevolence of the Sarvajna on the spiritual path. Brothers, think! Who gave us all those spiritual treatises through which we are able to know the true original form of our utma, through which we can find the means for self-realisation, through which we can attain the path of devoted pursuit? Who made us aware of all these principles? Our infinitely benevolent omniscient Supreme Souls have told us all that, in the form of principles, devoted pursuit and the path, which they saw, understood, believed and experienced in their knowledge.
Here one fact is worth considering. In the Antakrutang Shastra, there is a mention of the effort of 90 jivas for the attainment of kevaljnana. These jivas attained kevaljnana through their purushartha. The moment they attained kevaljnana, their four aghati karmas were destroyed and they immediately attained moksu. Such jivas are called Antakruta Kevalis. They saw and experienced the entire universe in their kevaljnana, they scrutinised all the dravya-guna-paryayas, but they were not left with any time to offer a discourse after attaining kevaljnana. As a result, they could not tell anybody else about their experience.
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