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The Self Realization
Every sense-organ enables us to know only its appropriate objects, the ear cannot see and the eye cannot hear. But the Soul can know the appropriate objects of all the five senses. Without the co-operation of the soul, no sense can function. Not only the soul knows the objects perceived by the five senses but also it remembers them for future reference.
देह न जाणे तेहने, जाणे न इंद्री, SITUT I तेह प्रवर्ते जाण 114311
वडे,
आत्मानी सत्ता
Deha na jane
tehane, jane na indri, prana, Atmani satta vade, teha pravarte jana. 53 The body cannot know the soul, Nor senses, neither knows the breath, All do their deeds, if there's the soul, If it goes off, it is called death. 53
The body cannot know the Soul, nor can the senses or breath know it. On the other hand the very functions of the body, the senses and the breath depend on the presence of the Soul in them.
The Soul is conscious and intelligent, the body and the senses are unconscious and non-intelligent, the soul is spiritual, the body and the senses are material, they will be dead and lifeless in the absence of the Soul. Without the Soul they cannot be known as such. Hence it is meaningless to ask as to why do the senses not see the Soul if there is one such. The body and the senses are by nature incapable of knowing or seeing the Soul. It is foolish to expect or to think of the sense-perception of the Soul.
सर्व अवस्थाने विषे, न्यारो सदा जणाय 1 ए एंधाण 114811
प्रगटरूप
चैतन्यमय,
सदाय
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