I am The Soul Part 02

Author(s): Tarulatabai Mahasati
Publisher: Shri Gujarati Shwetambar Sthanakwasi Jain Association

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I am the Soul merging through an effort or effortlessly. Where there is sanyog, i.e. union, there is also viyogi.e. separation. Thus Gurudev, while explaining the form of the body to the disciple, says that the body in only in interactive relation - sanyog.
Further, body is inanimate, i.e it has no chetan or life energy. Besides the qualities of the inanimate such as colour, smell, taste and touch are all noticed in the body. From uni-sensory - ekendriya - to penta-sensory - panchendriya, all bodies have these qualities of colour etc. The pudgala atoms are inanimate, therefore the body made from them is also inanimate.
Body has a form. It has some form or the other. It can be seen. Whatever we see are all bodies. Jiva is not visible. Even when we look at ants and insects, we do not say these are jivas. We refer to them as bodies.
Body is visible. That is to say, it can be seen by others. The atma sees the body, for knowing and seeing is the true disposition of the atma. Therefore, atma sees every body. But nobody can see the atma. Thus body is the subject of vision. If atma is the knower then body is the known.
Gurudev tells the disciple, ‘The body is a sanyog sambandh. It is inanimate. It is large in its true disposition. It has a form and can be seen with the eyes. Now, if along with the creation of the body, atma - which is of a diametrically opposite quality, is getting created in it and also getting destroyed with the destruction of the body, then I ask you, O Disciple! - adi gryfa cate, chat 37747 094? - Who is capable of experiencing the creation and destruction of the life energy?
The creation and destruction of the body can be observed. But who can know the atma that is generated in the body? The body cannot say that this atma is now generated. For the body is inanimate. It does not have the quality of knowledge. In fact, when it does not know of its own generation, how can it ever