Vicharmala Granth Satik Pustak 1 to 8

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

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VICHAR MALA.
in the internal organ, "I am unassociated" "I am Intelligence and Self" etc., used in the Shastras. Here 'I' refer to the uniform Intelligence, Self. Though reflection of Intelligence is placed over the internal organ, and therefore cannot be the receptacle of happiness and misery, inasmuch as what is substituted or placed over, cannot be the site or receptacle of another substance, (this is the rule) :- -as the snake substituted or placed over [superimposed or proiected] in a rope, cannot be the vehicle of moving about; yet ignorance is superimposed in pure Intelligence, (internal organ projected in associated ignorance) Jiva associated with the internal organ projects happiness and misery in the Witness Intelligence [Self]. In this way, Self is the site on whom is superimposed the attributes of doer and enjoyer etc., and the associate of that site of superimposition (illusory attribution) is the internal organ in which reflection is only a property of that organ.
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Whether virtue and the rest are the property of the internal organ or that of its predicate, Witness; or like the snake in a rope it is no property of either; at any rate, they do not belong to Self. Therefore a theosophist never perceives happiness or misery in Self.
Result of studying this portion of the work is thus declared.
Like a doll made of clay
Thrown into sea to measure its depth;
When a person reads the book,
Self merges into Self, and is absorbed.
That is to say, like a person using a doll made of clay to measure the depth of the sca-in short, using it as a plumb-line, it gets dissolved and never issues out again of it; so by reading the present work, one gets knowledge of Brahma, and merges into It, never again to issue out as a Jiva distinct from Brahma. -[His duality ceases and he is absorbed into Brahma to be conditionally one with It] As the Gita says:-"By attaining
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