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help of our critical and analytical capacity of the intellect and confirming its truth..
So the support of these things is for getting nearer towards our ultimate goal of experiencing one's own self and not to be contented by these activities and stop progressing further. And at the same time by renouncing Punyabhava or activities one should not lead a carefree sinful lite.
In Samaysar scripture, pious Bhava are called Hastavalamb or support for the hands. We take the support of the railings to go on the upper floor, but in the end we ultimately have to leave the support of the railings.
Similarly Darshan i.e. the sight of Bhagwan Jinendra, listening to his preaching, contemplating on them and analysing and coming to one's own conclusion about its truth are very essential. Without these the ultimate experience of the pure soul state i.e. Atmanubhav 14gea will not be possible.
So these things are definitely useful and apt but at the ultimate stage of Atmanubhav the support of all these things has already left back. And till the time you have these things present in your mind or thinking process, Atmanubhav is not possible. Because our ultimate goal is to experience the pure soul i.e. Atmanubhav and not only to think about it. in context of this fact Punya is considered to be worthy of leaving, or renouncing.
All the above things like rituals, prayers etc. are left out only after learning and practising them. For example, after passing secondary school exam. we leave the school. But one who has never gone to school or one who has left school half way through cannot get admission in the college. He is not eligible.
Similarly, unless you have studied the scriptures and acquired the proper knowledge about the state of things as they exist and the principles behind it, with your own analytical faculty of intellect, Atmanubhav is not possible. But at the time of Atmanubhav all your thoughts about Atma also cease to exist or arise and a state of blissful pure Atmic experience without any thoughts is achieved.
Today we will be dealing or learning about Prameyatva attribute, which may be called as knowability or knowableness. Its definition is as follows, 'That power or potentiality by virtue of which substance becomes the subject of any kind of knowledge is called Pramayatva Guna or knowability attribute', in other words each substance has such a potentiality by which it is known or it becomes subject of knowledge or gets reflected in some body's knowledge.
