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The Self Realization
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Biji shanka thaya tya, atma nahi avinasha, Dehayogathi upaje, dehaviyoge nasha. 60 The second doubt now I put forth, The soul cannot be eternal, The contact of the body's birth, Destruction of union visual. 60
My second doubt is that even though the Sou! exists it is not experienced as eternal or indestructible. We can only recognise Soul's existence in the experiences of a living body. None has found a Soul in inert ball of matter. To say that a man has died is simply to mean that the soul has stopped its function in it. Therefore in the dead objects we cannot see Soul. Why not then say that the Soul is born with the living body and expires with its expiry ? This means that the Soul is momentary and not permanent nor eternal, that the Soul is born at the co-operation and contact of five gross elements in a certain proportion and that it expires at the dis-integration or separation of the very five elements.
अथवा वस्तु क्षणिक छे, क्षणे क्षणे पलटाय ।
ए अनुभवथी पण नहीं, आत्मा नित्य जणाय ॥६१॥ Athava vastu kshanika chhe, kshane kshane palataya, E anubhavathi pana nahi, atma nitya janaya. 61 Or things are transient, constant change, Is seen in every living being, And substances without knowledge, I see, thus, there's no eternal thing. 61
All psychical and physical substances are found to be in constant and continuous flux or change. There is nothing in this world of space and time which is not changing. Therefore, the soul that exists should also be
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