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even becomes a widower! So this is how the world is. The phases
(avastha) in this world are all temporary, and You (the Self;
Atma) yourself, are permanent! But one is not aware of this.
One believes, ‘I am a sinner (paapi)’ and even that is the
mechanical atma; it is the part which is agitated (chanchal).
That, which runs this worldly life (sansar) only remains absorbed
in the worldly life; is the atma which is all mechanical atma.
Even if you did not want to run it yourself, the machinery would
go on running. The original, real Atma is still (achad); not even
slightly agitated (chanchal). Because of no