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Letter 26 Seven Tattvas - Bhed Vidnyan Letter 26
January 15, 1996. Dear Reena & Mona,
Blessings & Best Wishes. It was nice to hear from you both that you have read again the xerox copy of all the letters compiled together. Mona said that Mahesh read the letters and he found them so wonderful or astonishing like your TV serial Star Track. Probably he must have found it to be unrealistic and unbelievable as well.
But even a story which is wonderful and astonishing one reads with much interest and curiosity. And if the new generation reads these letters with that curiosity (though they may at first time find it unbelievable ) my purpose of writing them is fulfilled.
Many of our friends have suggested that these letters should be published in the form of a book. We are thinking of starting that project soon. And from that point of view, you should let me know if any of the topics are difficult to understand. So that it can be simplified or modified in the book.
Our present ongoing subject is about seven fundamental principles i.e. Tattvas. Till today we have been discussing in details the nature of seven Tattvas and other explanations related to them. We have dealt in details with the topics such as their names, nature, why there are only seven of them, the fallacious beliefs about them, and how to consider them to be Heya, Dnyeya and Upadeya. We have also understood the proper meaning of the saying 'Tatvartha Shraddhanam Samyak Darshanam aradt maleri Hepageti.'
Now you may say that, " We have got all the knowledge, so we must have attained Samyak Darshan". Hold on ! just don't be in such a hurry. All this knowledge of the seven principles is in fact the verbal and bookish knowledge about the seven principles as told in scriptures. Or in other words you have learnt about the nature of the principles from outside. But have you attained Atma Dnyan? Have you experienced spark or flame of Chaitanya ( taratura amwelfar ) which is the main intrinsic force behind these Tattvas?
By now you have learnt few technical terms from these scriptures. So you may use them arid say, "at least we have attained Vyavahar Samyak Darshan ". But if you really believe it to be so then I will tell you that you are highly mistaken. For it is rightly said that half knowledge is always dangerous. And this is the case with you if you feel that you have Vyavahar Samyak Darshan.
