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Sarangpur-14: Laziness and Infatuation

Summary

1. God is extremely powerful:

1. Without His wish, no one falls from His abode after having attained it.
2. By His will, that which is jad [non-living, inanimate] can become chaitanya [possessing consciousness], and that which is chaitanya can become jad.

2. Those who have become enlightened through vairāgya, ātmā-realisation, and bhakti towards God never fall from God’s abode.
3. Laziness and infatuation:

1. Those who discard these two transgresses māyā.
2. If one does not discard these two and behaves carelessly, then these will not fail to hinder a devotee.
3. If a devotee remains vigilant, then he can eradicate both these; whereas, a non-believer cannot eradicate these.

4. The sthul body and the sukshma body:

1. Both are interwoven with each other.
2. For one who possesses the knowledge of the ātmā, he is not affected by the karmas of the sthul and sukshma bodies; therefore, when he discards his body, God grants him a divine body with which he resides in the abode of God.
3. A person who identifies his self with the body is affected by all karmas related to the sthul and sukshma bodies, and he suffers the torments of Yampuri.