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I am the Soul
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Well, similarly, one who has relinquished the vargana of the body, in spite of being a resident in it, experiences one's own independent existence. This state is the dehatit state. The incessant experience of the true eternal form prevails. The jnayaka bhava of the atma is only in experiencing its self. Srimadji salutes innumerable times at the feet of such a jnani the supreme soul Shri Arihant Bhagawan. In the first invocation he saluted the inner feeling of the atma and in the end another invocation salutes the feeling of the supreme soul.
How many salutations? Not hundreds, thousands, lakhs or crores, but innumerable. Prabhu! Your vibhuti is infinite, salutations to you are infinite. When does ananta-vandan occur? Only when the ego within is totally diminished. Srimadji accepts servitude at the feet of the Jineshwar and offers innumerable salutations. Indeed, what respect towards the Jineshwar! Only the heart of those who have got the greatness of Jineshwar settled in their heart, can bow at the feet of the Jineshwar and not at those of others. Srimadji has dedicate his own faith and devotion at the feet of the Jineshwar.
That is it! Atmasiddhi Shastra ends here with the offering of prayers at the feet of Jinavar. We have analysed this Shastra for four months here. The thoughts in this Shastra are very sombre and cryptic. Every word of that person who composed this Shastra is coming from his own self-experience and it is valuable. If a chhadmastha (ajnani) and alpa jnani jiva like I, tries to unravel such a deep grantha, there are bound to be inaccuracies in it. It is but natural that I could not do full justice to the thoughts in this Shastra. After all our intellect has a limit and the thoughts in the Shastras are unlimited. How can one with limits describe the unlimited? Therefore, if there has been any lapse while expressing the wonderful thoughts in the Shastras, I take this occasion of the ending of the Shastra to seek pardon at the feet of Sri Jineshwar.
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