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The Self Realization
It is obvious that one that claims to know the birth and death of the Soul must be different from it. The Soul in the living body cannot say it was born nor can it say it is dead. Such an experience is unthinkable.
जे संयोगो देखिये, ते ते अनुभव दृश्य I ऊपजे नहि संयोगथी, आत्मा नित्य प्रत्यक्ष ॥६४॥ Je samyogo dekhiye, te te anubhava drashya, Upaje nahi samyogathi, atma nitya pratyaksha. 64 Compounds of elements can be seen, But not the soul that's original, The soul is the seer and not the seen, Nothing can create the soul eternal. 64
All combinations of atoms are seen and known by the Soul, but reflecting on the nature of these combinations we find none which is competent to create a Soul. Therefore the Soul is neither an atom nor a combination of atoms, nor does it result from any combination of atoms. The Soul is eternal and it is directly experienced as such by self-knowledge.
जडथी चेतन ऊपजे, चेतनथी जड थाय 1 एवो अनुभव कोईने, क्यारे कदी न थाय ॥६५ || Jadathi chetana upaje, chetanathi jada thaya, Evo anubhava koine, kyare kadi na thaya. 65 From matter consciousness may rise, Or consciousness might it create, Is not experience of the wise, It never happens, say the great. 65
None has ever experienced the birth of the sentient from the non-sentient or the reverse.
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