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SARVODAYA TIRTHA
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stick to it Thus while the others have to be known, the self has to be known and then captured so that one is absorbed in it The idea is not to get entangled in their differences, and subdifferences, but to know the self, the soul, in which all differences are lost, so that it is an undivided soul, without division or difference, which has to be known as one and a single entity.
Relative to vision, this is the doctrine of one's own self which pervades the three time periods, which is by nature knowledge and bliss, eternal and conscious All matter, inanimate objects, their qualities, their categories are other than the self. Likewise, the disturbances in the soul, influx, bondage, virtue, vice are other than the self. Even such non-disturbing categories like check, exhaustion and liberation are distinctly separate from the self, and so they also find a place in the group called non-self.
Another definition of the science of differentiation may be to remove one's vision and knowledge from all other souls, matter, influx, bondage, check, exhaustion and liberation and concentrate it on one's own soul, ever constant
One who knows the soul also knows others, not to recognise them or get them, but to know the self as distinct from the rest
In this way, the knowledge of others turns out to be the knowledge of self. The purpose here is not to know others, but this is just a safeguard so that there is no mistake in knowing the self
Others are to be known not with a covetous, but with a noncovetous outlook A child who has lost his mother looks at many women but does not fix his gaze on them, till he does so and holds her in embrace when he sees his mother. In the same manner, a wise soul knows others, but he knows them as no more than superficials
Although the work of research or use of research may be called the science of differentiation, in reality, it is something in which one is lost in what he is searching for, 1 e., in his own self.
