The Jivi (an individual soul) can discard as many gross bodies in which it takes temporary residence as the number of times one pares one’s nails. But the subtle body cannot be changed; it lasts and persists. This is the most secret doctrine of Bharathiya (Indian) spiritual thought. Going further along this line of discovery, it can be seen that a human being means a complex of the gross body, the subtle body and the Jivi. The Vedantic philosophy declares that the Jivi shares the quality of Nithya (Eternal, Unchanging, Everlastingness) with Brahman.
- Sathya Sai Vahini, Chap 8, "Bondage". |
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