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Letter 22
143 This is the proper and apt procedure. Because if a chronic patient is told about the symptoms of his ailment, with which he is familiar and then is told about the condition of proper healthy status without the ailment or its symptoms and then is advised about the course of the treatment, then he believes in it quickly and is ready to take the treatment.
Fallacious beliefs about Jeev & Ajeev Tattva :
The fallacious beliefs about both the Tattvas are told together because Jeev who has Mithyatva considers or believes - (1) Jeev and Ajeev together as 'me' or ' myself', (2) Ajeevas Jeev, (3) Jeevas Ajeev.
In other words he considers that Jeev is a combination of body and soul together as one or considers body itself as Jeev or Jeev as body itself. He is not able to understand the separate nature of these two Tattvas.
Suppose a child is asked to buy lemon from the market, and brings something else like orange or cucumber, it proves that he neither knows the true nature of lemon nor that of the orange and cucumber.
In Chhahadhala Jeev Tattva is described as Chetanko hai upayog roop which means the true characteristics of Jeev are Dnyan and Darshan. It means these are my characteristics, these are also your characteristics and also are the characteristics of Nigod Jeev and Siddha Jeev. This is the nature of all the Jeevas. But Jeev does not consider this Dnyan Darshan to be his nature, on the contrary considers the body to be his nature.
You may realise that as soon as we get up in the morning we look at ourselves(?) in the mirror. We are happy to see the photo of our body as we consider it to be our photo. So if the body is beautiful we feel proud and consider that we are beautiful or feel unhappy by the thought that we are sick whereas it is the body which is sick. Once we acquire a new body we are bom and think that when the body will be left by the soul it will be our death. Is it not true that we believe this to be the true state of affairs ?
It is said in Hindi " A 34 04 4 A, tira m14est TNT HF". It means that we take the birth of the body to be birth of ourselves and the end of the body to be our end. Though only two stages, first stage of birth and the last stage of death are mentioned here, all the other stages in between also are considered to be our stages. e.g. If the body is fair and beautiful then I am fair and beautiful, if it is tall then I am tall, if it is short I am short, when it is growing I am growing, if it is disabled then I am disabled etc.
