Rajgeeta English Translation and Comentry on Atmasiddhi Shastra

Author(s): Shrimad Rajchandra, Manu Doshi
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Mission

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moves it away by waving the hand. Moreover, awareness continues to stay while undergoing changes in physical states. For instance, one grows from childhood to youth or to old age; his health may improve or deteriorate; he remains aware of the changes taking place in all such states.
Further, there is elegance in every part of the body. They look different from what they would look in absence of life. That difference is the sign of consciousness. Similarly one usually remembers what he might have experienced during a dreaming state. When he wakes up after a sound sleep, he realizes that he had gone through sleep and experiences the freshness gained thereby. It indicates that consciousness, the knowing capability, was prevailing during the sleep. That is the sure and manifest sign of the existence of soul. In fact, being alive or dead can be ascertained by the existence or non-existence of consciousness.
El2, ua Hile nei g, den da Hid; જાણનાર તે માન નહિ, કહીએ કેવું જ્ઞાન?
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Ghat, Pat Ädi Jän Tun, Tethi Tene Män; Jänanär Te Män Nahi, Kahie Kevun Jnän?
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You believe in the pot, cloth, etc. because you (see and) know them; what type of knowledge is it, that you do not believe in the knower? (55)
Explanation & Discussion: The pupil had said that if the soul exists, it should be apparent like a pot, cloth, or any other material object. In a way, the reply has been already given when it was explained that the soul is intangible, it has no form or shape and is therefore not visible like material objects. Here the Guru
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