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ātmahit māṭe

vairāgyarasabhīno upadesh

daul!n samaj sun chet sayāne kāl vr̥uthā mat khove;
yah narabhav phir milan kaṭhin hai jo samyak nahi hove.

bhāī, anantavār manuṣhyabhav pāmyo paṇ ātmānā gnān vinā te vyartha

gumāvyo. yuvānīmān viṣhayavāsanāmān ne dhanamān evo mohyo ke bījun kāī sujhe ja

nahīn! e rīte kimmatī kāḷ pāpamān gumāvyo. jo ke ātmānun hit karavā māṅge to

yuvānīmān paṇ karī shakāy chhe; paṇ ā to darakār nathī karatā evā jīvonī vāt chhe.

anantavār ātmānī darakār vagar yuvānī pāpamān gumāvī, māṭe ā avasaramān

ātmānī darakār karaje–em upadesh chhe.

manuṣhyajanmanī yuvānīno kāḷ–te to dharmanī kamāṇīno kharekharo vakhat chhe,

evā vakhate viṣhayakaṣhāyomān ḍubīne ratnachintāmaṇi jevo avasar veḍaphī nāṅkhe chhe!

bhāī, ā manuṣhyapaṇānī ekek ghaḍī mahā kimmatī chhe, lākho–karoḍo rūpiyā āpatāny

enī ek ghaḍī maḷe tem nathī. nāno hoy to daḍā ūḍāḍavāmān vakhat gāḷe ne moṭo

thāy eṭale paisā kamāvāmān vakhat chālyo jāy. paṇ bhāī, kṣhaṇekṣhaṇe tārā jīvanano

daḍo ūḍī jāy chhe ane tārā ātmānī kamāṇī chukī javāy chhe, tenī kāī darakār

kharī? āvo avasar vyartha gumāvavā jevo nathī.

vr̥uddhāvasthā kyāre āvī jāy chhe tenī khabar paṇ nathī paḍatī; vr̥uddhāvasthā thatān

ardhamr̥utak jevī dashā thaī jāy chhe. dehamān anek rog thāy, hālīchālī shakāy nahi,

khāvāpīvāmān parādhīnatā, īndriyo kām kare nahi, āṅkhe pūrun dekhāy nahi, strī–putrādi

paṇ kahevun māne nahi,–ane draṣhṭi to e badhā sanyogo upar ja paḍī chhe, eṭale jāṇe ke

jīvan hārī gayo–em te jīv duḥkhī–duḥkhī thaī jāy chhe, paṇ bāl–yuvān–vr̥uddha traṇe

avasthāthī bhinna potānā chaitanyasvarūpane mohī jīv jāṇato nathī. ne ātmānā bhān

vagar manuṣhyapaṇun duḥkhamān ja gumāve chhe.

vr̥uddhāvasthāmāny ātmānun kalyāṇ karavā dhāre to karī shakāy chhe. –‘e to jāgyā

tyānthī savār.’ agāu to ghaṇā jīvo sharīramān saphed vāḷ dekhatān vairāgya pāmīne dīkṣhā

laī letān, evā prasaṅgo banatā. paṇ hajī dehathī bhinna ātmānun gnān paṇ jyān na

hoy tyān dīkṣhā kyāthī lye? chaitanyanī shraddhā chūkīne dehanī anukūḷatāmān ja mūrchhāī

gayo, ne pratikūḷatā āve tyān duḥkhanā ḍhagalāmān jāṇe daṭāī