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Letter 6 But one need not worry about it. Because soul is a sentient substance. Sentience is its attribute ( capacity to know ). As you can see, who understands these written words? The soul i.e. 'l'. How do we recollect the incidence that happened in the past? Because of our attribute of knowledge or sentience. Who has this attribute? Of course the soul. Even the knowledge that some things are difficult to understand is known by the soul.
The attribute of sentience or knowing does the work of knowing constantly, at every second. Even in sleep it is working, i.e. knowing. Because I know that I did not sleep well at night or I had a bad dream at night. Now, while I was sleeping how did I know whether the dream is good or bad? It is because my attribute of sentience is constantly at work.
At all the times, throughout day and night this attribute is, so to say, telling us that I am here. And we are constantly aware of this attribute of knowing. With this attribute all the other.infinite attributes are also there because of Avinabhavi relation fanmurat u with each other.
So in fact soul is that where all these attributes like sentience are existing together. And with this knowledge it is easy to know and experience one's own soul.
Now we have learnt about the cosmos i.e. Vishva, substances i.e. Dravya. And once we know the nature of the attributes i.e. Guna and their manifestations i.e. Paryay the nature of substances will be clearer to us.
Mona, you had asked me about the seminar at Jaipur. Daily there was a full programme of lectures, discourses, study classes, prayers, Vidhan fant etc. right from 5.a.m. in the morning up to 10.00 p.m. at night for about 10 to 12 hrs. Daily we had to study and revise what was being taught and in the end they held exams. That was our routine programme.
There were about 2-3 thousand people from Jaipur itself and around 850 people had come from various parts of India. Many learned scholars as well as new students took part. Here we got the opportunity to study the scriptures in details.
I appeared for three exams Tattvadnyan pathmala तत्त्वज्ञान पाठमाला, Nayachakra नयचक्र and Gunasthan praveshika गुणस्थान प्रवेशिका. In these exams I got 96%, 96% and 100% respectively. I stood first in all the three exams. Everybody was happy, surprised and congratulated me. I felt as if I am attending college again.
Rest in my next letter.
With love.
Your Mom.
