4.Ekattva bhavana:
‘Ekattva’ in simple words means ‘one-self is alone’, or rather the self-soul is alone or solitary.
See, the meaning of this thought is to explain that no one is your’s except for you yourself that is the self-soul.Not even the body in which the soul resides is your’s then how can any other person or thing can be of the self-soul.And if nothing is of self-soul then why to have feeling or faith of belongingness in the non-self others ? And this misconception is the cause of all our sorrows and our vicious cycle of birth and deaths.
“Aap akela avtarey ,marai akela hoy
Yu kabahun iss jeev ko saathi sadaa na koi.”
Sri Bhudhardasji says that you take birth alone and when you die that time also go alone, no one comes with you nor goes with you.So there is infact no companion of your’s.You means self-soul is all alone.
“Janmey marey akela chetan , such-dukh ka bhogi,
Aur kisi ka kya ek din yah deh judi hogi……………….”
Sri Mangatramji says that this soul takes birth and dies all alone .And even when this body has to be left after death then who else can belong to this soul? Means no one is companion of this soul.And when on your death your family members cries they actually cries for the attachment with your body and the happiness they were getting from.They can come with the body till the cremation only and what after that?
Just as we meet people in a fare etc , we meet the so-called family in a life and we have to leave them and go all alone after death and we don’t know whether we’ll meet them again or not.!!!
In Chah dhala Sri daulatramji says that whatever deeds or karmas are done by thius soul- whether good or bad,their results will have to be suffered by this soul all alone.And your son, wife etc are only for their selfish aspirations, they cannot share the sufferings from the results of your karmas.
“Mai ekaaki ekattva liye ekattva lye sab hi aatey
Tan dhan ko sathi samjha tha par ye bhi chhod chaley jaatey”
Sri Yugalji says that I means self-soul and other souls all are all-alone in themselves,no one is a companion of the other.He says that if the soul thinks that his body, wealth etc are his friends or companons then, he is totally wrong as these things also leaves him at death
5.Anyattva Bhavana:
“Anyattva” means to have difference and distinctness.”Anya” means “the other”.
Well, it will be cleared under the following description.
Actually this thought or feeling says that the soul is distinct in itself and he is different and totally distinct from ‘the others’ like body and other pudgal (matter and energy) and other souls.
“ Mere na huey ye mai insey ati bhinn akhand nirala hun
Nij mai par se anyattva liye nij samras peeney wals hun”
Sri Yugal ji says that the body and wealth etc are not of the soul’s and the soul is absolutely different from them and is indivisible in itself and is distinct and unique.The soul is distinct and different from all ‘the others’ in himself and he enjoys his self-soul’s own eternal bliss.
Sri Daulatramji in his Chhah dhala says that when the soul and body which resides in the same space units just like milk and water are actually different and distinct from each other, then the other things like weath, house etc which can be clearly seen as different from the soul, can be that of the soul’s.Means nothing , not even the body in which the soul resides is part of the soul and the soul is separate and distinct from all these non—self ‘the others’.
Sri Mangatramji very nicely describes this feeling of anyattva or the distinctness of the soul.He says that in this world due to beginingless ignorance of this soul, he is full of misconceptions and he is just like a deer who searches water in the dry desert as he sees falsely a source of water in the desert.And he actually never gets water as water is not there in reality in the desert and it was only a misconception of the deer.Same is the state of this soul in this world .He also searches happiness in the worldly things like body, wealth etc, but they cannot give him happiness in reality.
He says that the soul has to understand that he is different and body is different, he is knowledgeable while the body cannot have knowledge and both are absolutely different, but are residing in the same space units like water and milk and that is why he is mistaking them as one and the same.
The soul is distinct from all ‘the others’ and he should always strife for getting the right faith , right knowledge and right conduct to get salvation.
Dr. Amit Prakash Jain
