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The Self Realization
only if it does not change with its changing manifestations. All its infinite qualities admit of increase or decrease in them but none of them is ever totally destroyed. Do we not say that the sea remains the same though its waves constantly change ?
अथवा ज्ञान क्षणिकनु, जे जाणी वदनार । वदनारो ते क्षणिक नहि, कर अनुभव निर्धार ॥६९।। Athava jnana kshanikanu, je jani vadanara, Vadanaro te kshanika nahi, kara anubhava nirdhara. 69 One who describes absolute change, Of everything at every moment, Must be the same who knows and says, This falsifies his own statement. 69
Besides, how can we say that an object or experience is momentary if we come and go with it ? One who knows that an object is momentary and says it to be so at the next moment, must be present after the momentary object is no more. Therefore we must admit that the knower of the momentariness of objects cannot be momentary himself. On this evidence one should decide that the Soul that knows itself, its qualities, its manifestations and the world around it is eternal and not momentary.
क्यारे कोई वस्तुनो, केवळ ' होय न नाश ।
चेतन पामे नाश तो, केमां भळे तपास ॥७०।। Kyare koi vastuno, Khevala hoya na nasha, Chetana pame nasha to, kema bhale tapasa. 70 Nothing is lost aboslutely, See water changes as the steam, If consciousness is off totally, Find out the ocean of soul-stream. 70
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