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Any quality that belongs to the soul remains immersed in it. One who has realised the soul and thus attain completeness of the soul never loses it. Only through samyatkva can the seeker attain completeness of the soul.
Samyaktva is the launching pad for spiritual ascent
Since beginningless time, the soul has been troubled by the demons of anger, arrogance, artifice and avarice and the slings of attachment, aversion and delusion because it is ignorant of its true nature and because of its mithyaatva. Such a soul is fast asleep in delusion. W ithin seconds, innumerable thoughts, feelings and dispositions appear and disappear from the soul. Their constant presence in the soul causes great upheavals and disturbances in the soul. Just as rains drive away the heat of parched land, the attainment samyaktva in the soul becalms the upheavals and dilemmas that one normally has to endure.
Each of these passions, dilemmas, and inappropriate dispositions can be further classified innumerable
times. The tangible external world is tiny. The intangible internal world is immense. Realised saints have placed great emphasis on spiritual upliftment as the way to escape from the terror of wrong dispositions and false dilemmas. Spiritual uplift helps the soul do away with wrong dispositions and false dilemmas. Unless one's soul is awakened, it cannot rise from the stage of inappropriate disposition to the stage of auto-immersion. Until then, it is impossible to free itself from wrong dispositions and false dilemmas. Uplift of the self is spiritual upliftment. This is samyaktva. Only samyaktva can trigger this spiritual upliftment. Only samyaktva can free one from the terrors of ignorance and wrong disposition.
Samyaktva is the source of boundless power and confidence
Samyaktva is the art of knowing the difference between the self and the non-self. Using this art, the soul can free itself from all worldly bonds. Then, he will not have to experience any anxiety and sorrow. The attainment of samyaktva strengthens the faith in the soul and its immortality, eternity, omnipotence, consciousness, indestructibility and permanence. It helps the person realise that birth and death are of the body, not of the soul. All worldly interaction is caused by the body. And they end with the death of the body. The person who has attained samyaktva, realizes that he is the soul and nothing and no one else belongs to him. He now knows that his soul is like the soul of a liberated being. This dridha pratiiti unshakeable faith, sahaja vishvaasa spontaneous and effortless faith and sahaja bodha (spontaneous and effortless understanding is attained only due to samyaktva. Samyaktva is the source of this kind of unshakeable faith and confidence in reality. One whose life is enlightened by samyaktva rids his soul of the darkness of nescience. His soul becomes enlightened by the torch of unshakeable faith. His unshakeable faith is the gift of samyaktva.
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