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Gadhada I-20: An Ignorant Person; Seeing One’s Own Self
Summary
- The jiva indulges in a countless variety of vishays, but:
- It does not indulge in the bliss of its own self, nor does it know its own nature.
- Therefore, it is the most ignorant of the ignorant, senseless of the senseless, most foolish of the fools and vilest of the vile.
- For a person who has attained satsang, realisation of his jivātmā lies in his own hands.
- One who contemplates on the greatness of God and draws within oneself sees one’s own self as extremely pure and luminous; and in the midst of that luminance, one beholds the form of the manifest Purushottam Bhagwān.
- All deficiencies, which remain in a devotee, are due to his own lethargy.
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