Vicharmala Granth Satik Pustak 1 to 8

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

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VICHAR MALA.
the beggar or Bhiksha ; and the four conditions of Deva and humanity, of Guru and pupil or merit or demerit, all these belong to the physical body whose property they are ; (they are not mine) because I am the perfect Self, unchangeable, indestructible, knowing no decline nor growth. As said in Dhyandwipa (Panchadasi) "Caste and order are a creation of illusion, they belong to the physical body, and not Self, who is intelligence. This is well known to a theosophist."
Self distinct from the subtle body is thus shewn:
Mind, intellect, sense, vital airs, The elements five, knower and knowledge, Nor the object known "am I.” All these belong not to me, yet Iam in them.
The twelve organs of sense, action and internal perception, (beginning with the mind with the vital airs are the seventeen distinguishing features of the subtle body) together with the five elements ether and the rest, distinction created by the internal organ with the reflected intelligence present in it, viz., of knower, knowledge and the object to be known are nos naturally with myself, but I am present in them. As the Gita says, “One who has restrained his mind by practising Yoga sees self present in all the elements and bodies derived from them, and regards them non-different from him.”
I am Intelligence ; the world is an illusion Like a magic show. I' and 'Thou' are unrivalled. To say otherwise, and connect them 80,
Is improper and impossible. Since I am Intelligence, and the external world is a creation of illusion, like things produced in a magic show, therefore to say" I am wise," " Thou art stupid," "He is a friend," and thus to connect self with this and that and create a relation with the world is improper and impossible: for that self is unri