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82 • A Reservoir of Infinite Power
When it is a necklace it cannot be a bangle. Hence, when the form of a bangle appears i.e. bangle is made, the previous form of necklace disappears, but in both cases, gold remains the same. Thus, to describe all the three happenings in a single unit of time is really something intrigue and unique in realisation of the soul. In other words, every moment, all the substances undergo this three-fold transformation.
Inward looking people alone can focus on the eternality and once that is realised, forms will be seen as only appearing and disappearing and they will not be affected by them and will be finally detached. When forms are taking place every moment, it is clear that these are not caused by external or contextual factors and hence there will be no tendency in such a person to interfere with the occurrence of forms. Thus, appearance of belief in the nature of the soul (path to Moksha) leads to disappearance of the form-orientation (path to worldly existence). This is the immense benefit of understanding the nature of the soul.
When one knows about the clothes or pots, one believes them to be clothes and pots and nothing else, but it is a tragedy that one does not believe or know about the soul which knows all these - there is something fundamentally wrong. It is really a great paradox that one claims to know other objects but one, who himself is the knower, is not known to the same person who knows? This is the greatest ignorance.
19. Changeability (Parinam) - Changeability is the characteristic of existence but how can there be changeability without eternality, as well as appearance and disappearance of forms?
Just as one may have gold ornaments worth millions of rupees buried underground in the house, but unless known,
