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The speaker is not momentary...
The devoted pursuit of the three gems manifests the original form of atma. The atma traversing through lives with the aid of artificial forms has believed these forms to be its own. It has not recognised its own true original form, and hence there is the bafflement about atma.
The doubting disciple too, has been inspired by some quandary to believe the atma to be momentary and not accept its permanence. All the visible substances of the world make one experience impermanence. Seeing this, he had told Gurudev that it does not seem as if atma is permanent. After establishing that through all the states of the body, the atma remains the same, Gurudev further explains this subject -
अथवा ज्ञान क्षणिकर्नु, जे जाणी वदनार;
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O Disciple! You have now accepted that there is atma in your body. You say atma is momentary. So I ask you, is it your atma or somebody else that is saying that atma is momentary? Who speaks from inside? If its your atma speaking, then when did it realise that atma is momentary? In your opinion if it was momentary, then the atma that knew is now destroyed. The speaker is somebody else, who never knew. So how do we believe what it says? If it is speaking without knowing, then the matter is not worth believing, and if it is speaking with knowledge, it cannot be momentary. For it takes at least one moment to know. If it says what it just learnt, that would take another moment. Such a situation is of two moments. So the argument that since everything is momentary, atma is also momentary, does not hold good.
It is our experience that whatever we say, we think before we say. We cannot speak at the same moment as we are thinking. The thinking moment is different and the speaking moment is
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