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Gandhi's Teachers: Rajchandra Ravjibhai Mehta
घटादिसर्वे जानासि अतस्तन्मन्यसे शिशो ।
तं न जानासि ज्ञातारं तद् ज्ञानं ब्रूहि कीदृशम् ||५५ ||
One knows all kinds of pots, etc. and thus accepts their existence. But one does not believe in the knower of that reality; what should one say of such knowledge?
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परम बुद्धि कृश देहमां, स्थूल देह मति अल्प । देह होय जो आत्मा, घटे न आम विकल्प || ५६ || कृशे देहे घना बुद्धिरधना स्थूलविग्रहे ।
स्याद् देहो यदि आत्मैव नैवं तु घटना भवेत् ॥ ५६ ॥
High intelligence is seen in a tiny body and small intelligence is seen in a large body. If body itself is soul, then this should not happen.
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जड़ चेतननो भिन्न छे, केवल प्रगट स्वभाव । एकपणुं पामे नहीं, त्रणे काल केवलं भिन्न एषाऽस्ति स्वभावो जड - जीवयोः ।
कदापि न तयोरैक्यं द्वैतं कालत्रिके तयोः ॥५७॥
Natures (or characteristics) of jivas (living beings) and Rajivas (non-living beings) are always different; never the same. In all the three times (past, present, and future), they (jivas and ajivas) remain (distinguishably) separate.
द्वयभाव ॥ ५७ ॥
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आत्मानी शंका करे, आत्मा पोते आप।
शंकानो करनार ते, अचरज एह अमाप ॥ ५८ ॥ आत्मानं शङ्कते आत्मा स्वयमज्ञानतो ध्रुवम् ।
यः शङ्कते स वै आत्मा स्वेनाऽहो ! स्वीयशङ्कनम् ॥५८||
Due to own ignorance, soul doubts itself. The one which expresses doubt is soul and on whom doubt is ex,essed is soul. Soul is self-doubter, is definitely a surprise.
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