Rajgeeta English Translation and Comentry on Atmasiddhi Shastra

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

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Science would state that the physical variations are due to the differences in parental genes. But how can we account for the differences and diversities prevailing among the members of the same family? How do the children get diseases, which are not possessed by their parents? Even twins conceived at the same time and born of the same parents display much diversity! There has to be some reason for all that, because nothing happens without a cause. The only sensible reason is that such phenomena occur on account of something that a soul might have indulged in earlier life. It means that the soul must have existed before. Once we accept that, it is easy to make out that it would continue to exist in future.
The explanatory note given (Vachanamrut # 718) under this stanza is pertinent here. It states, “The fury is noticed among snakes by birth; absence of violence is noticed among pigeons. From the very birth, bugs and other insects have the fear complex of being caught, and hence they tend to escape when we try to catch them. By birth, some beings have greater tendency of love, some have higher equanimity, some are more fearless, some have higher fear complex, some have more serenity, some have greater detachment, and some have more attachment for food, etc. Since such differences are noticed as existing from the birth, the reason thereof must lie in the traits developed in the earlier lives.”
આત્મા દ્રવ્ય નિત્ય છે, પર્યાયે પલટાય; બાળાદિ વય ત્રણ્યનું જ્ઞાન એકને થાય.
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Ätmä Dravye Nitya Chhe, Paryaye Palatäy; Bälädi Vay Tranyanun, Jnän Ekane Thäy.
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As a substance, the soul is eternal but its states continue to
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