Vicharmala Granth Satik Pustak 1 to 8

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

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.VICIAR MALA.
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be proved by the testimony of Sruti and Upanishads are gone. I know well now, Self is Intelligence and bliss, which up to the present moment I was ignorant of; and though residing in the body yet "am I” different from it, just as butter extracted from curdled milk (floating in a can of butter milk] remains distinct from it.
I am neither ignorant, nor have I any Good and bad; neither am I Iswar nor Jiva ; All these seven are unreal; they are not myself Neither pure nor free from faults—of wife etc.
"I am ignorant" signifies a person wanting in knowledge as its reverse is called wise; but ignorance belongs to Jiva, who is the reflected shadow of intelligence, and as “I am” not Jiva, hence have no necessity to avoid prohibited works, and practise the lawful. Then again, since there is no Jiva in me, the reflection of intelligence in Maya-Iswar-am I not. Because I am eternal, existence, and Maya is material and impermanent, therefore for their natural antagonism, it cannot be present. I am neither one with the predicate of the pure internal organ nor its reverse,—a man of the world with his attachment for wife children, wealth etc., for they are the attributes of the physical body--which I am not.
I belong not to any of the four asrams, Neither am I a Deva, nor man, Nor am I a Guru, nor pupil, Free from six, perfect Self am I, onc, Unchangeable, indestructible; Fręc from length and shortness.
The four (asranis) orders are referable to different periods of life:-1st, that of the student or enquirer of Self-knowledge Brahmachari ; 2nd, that of the house-holder or Grihasta ; 3rd, ibat of the anchorito or Vanaprastha ; and 4th, that of