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The Self Realization
the Self will be indifferent to the sense object contacts and he will direct all his energies to know the self.
Now, how can the Self be identified? As fire can be grasped by a fork, the nature of the Self can be grasped by discriminative differentiation between the nature of the Self and that of the living body, its senses and breath. The Self is Self-luminous and knowing. By a discriminative intellect the thoughts of the Self can be separated from those of the not-self- the body, the senses and the world at large. The intellect can clearly distinguish between the conscious and the unconscious, the living and the dead. In all forms of knowledge the knower is there but different from them. There is no knowledge without the Self, the prime knower. By true insight the seeker of the Self will read the presence of the Self in the surrounding beauty of Nature. In all doubtings the doubter will be known. While the material objects perceptible to the senses are momentary and subject to destruction the Self is indestructible. In fine, leaving everything else, a seeker of the Self should have firm faith on the Self and should think and meditate on it. The chief characteristics of the Self are eternal maintenance of its essential nature (Samata,) the source of all beauty (Ramata), prime importance of its presence in all forms of knowledge and action (Urdhvata), the capacity to know everything (Sukhabhasa) the seat of all experiences internal and external (Vedakata) and the source of all enlightenment (Caitanyata).
रूप 1
जे द्रष्टा छे दृष्टिनो, जे जाणे छे अबाध्य अनुभव जे रहे, ते छे जीवस्वरूप ॥५१॥ Je drashta chhe drashtino, je jane chhe rupa, Abadhya anubhava je rahe, te chhe jivasvarupa. 51
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