Vicharmala Granth Satik Pustak 1 to 8

Author(s): Anathdas Sadhu, Govinddas Sadhu
Publisher: Heeralal Dhole

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HUR MALA.
Just as the sun does a lotus.*** An unqualified person can never experinis bliss . Which Self is full of; just as The red water-lotus expands not its petalş #th the
sun. The illumination of a professor is well known to all' men. Because he expands the lotus of the heart of an enquirer, and prepares it to receive knowledge just as the sun's rays expand the petals of the water-lotus. Unqualified persons in this respect resemble the red lotus which expands with the moon, and they experience not the blissfulness of Self: in the same way, as with the appearance of the sun, owls take to their biding place.
Benefits conferred by a professor are now being shown by the method of natural connection of cause and effect and its exclusion,
From his kind precepts, i' asions are destroyed,
Rises knowledge and thy world appears a dream. When through kindness, a professor gives instruction on Self-knowledge, the envelopment of ignorance is removed and Self is made appear in his real condition, so that all illusions are at an end. To this end the Gita says “ Knowledge of «Self enveloped by ignorance, makes a Jiva subject to illusion." And when that illusion is destroyed, conceit for the body, wife and children, house and wealth (which hitherto a person used to connect to Self as “I am master of this house." "I have a son" etc., etc.) is destroyed just as objects created in dreams are destroyed with the opening of the eyes.
Without Guru, illusion attributes to Self What he is not, just as a dog in a glass house Barks at his own reflection : or as
A Lion fell into the well seeing another in water, Unless a person be so fortunate as to meet with a real professor, he cannot do away with illusion which attributes