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The Self Realization
Ah ! one that sees the sight and knows, Experiences one unconcealed, Indisputable sign that shows, The Soul itself to all revealed. 51
The Soul is the seer in sight. How can the sight grasp it ? The eye sees through the co-operation of the Soul. In other words, the soul guides and controls the eyes to fulfill their function of seeing the objects. The senses are powerless without the co-operation and control of the Soul. The Soul is the ruler and the senses are the ruled. Therefore one can say that the Soul sees through the eyes and hears through the ears. The Soul knows the forms. Ever after leaving all forms of the body, the Soul being indestructible abides. All other things are transitory, the Soul is eternal. The Soul does not cease to be with the stoppage of breath. Liquidating one by one the imperfect and limited experiences of the Soul, the experience of the Self itself remains indubitably certain and it is the irreducible basis of all other experiences. This nature of the Soul as unique and quite distinguishable from all forms of the material being is commonly experienced by the realized souls. In every state of the living being, the Soul maintains its unlimited presence and superiority. Such experiences are positive proofs of the presence of the Soul as quite different from breath, senses or the rest of the living body.
छे इंद्रिय प्रत्येकने, निज निज विषय- ज्ञान पांच इंद्रीना विषय, पण आत्माने भान ॥५२।। Chhe indirya pratyekane, nija nija vishayanu jnana,
Pancha indrina vishayanu, pana atmane bhana. 52 Each sense has its own subject-knowledge, The knowledge of all sense-subjects, The soul possesses, 'its not strange The ear hears, the soul rejects. 52
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