The prevailing experience of ‘I am this body, mind, speech
etc.’ is dehadhyas, and after Self-realization, this experience is
gone, and there prevails the experience of the Atma (Self). That,
which becomes involved (tanmayakar) with the body, is not the
original Atma, but the atma that one believes in; the atma that
interacts in the world (vyavahar atma).
It is not the Atma from within that says, ‘You are wrong’,
but the tape- record, that is based on whatever worldly
knowledge it has assumed, that is speaking. All these: the eyes
(camera), ears (receivers), speech (tape-record), mind
(machine’s head); as well as, eating, drinking, talking, walking,
is all mechanical.
Those who believe: ‘I am a sinner’, ‘I practice penance’,
or ‘I know scriptures’; or else, those conducting religious rituals,
meditation, chanting and penance – these actions are all done by
the mechanical atma, the Gnani has said. The Atma, according
to the world’s belief – the one that it tries to make still (achar)
and steady – is in motion (sachar – changing); it is a mechanical
atma; whereas the real Atma is still (achar), and its nature is
to Know. The belief is fundamentally wrong. While being in an
unsteady state, in trying to discover the steady Atma, you would
only attain the unsteady atma! The mechanical atma, which is
always unsteady (chanchal) and active (kriyasheel); is what the
world is trying to make steady. How can this be possible? The
vision that is directed towards the steady (achar) will bring
about the natural state of steadiness. Who but the Gnani, can
make one understand the fact that the mechanical self, and the
original Atma, are so different by nature? Who would give you
such knowledge of their separation? The original Atma is in the
form of Absolute Knowledge (Keval Gnan), in the form of
Absolute light (Keval prakash), infinite Knowledge (anant
Gnan), infinite Vision (anant Darshan), infinite Energy (anant
shakti) and infinite Bliss (anant sukh). This chetan is full of
infinite attributes!
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