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## The Nature of Pure Awareness
**Yoga Shastra, Eleventh Light, Verse 61**
Therefore, that bliss is eternal. Since this perfected bliss never ends, it is infinite bliss. How can the eternal be infinite? Because by seeing the destruction of pots, etc., we know that pots, etc., have a beginning. We see that they are destroyed by the actions of hammers, etc. Therefore, since a pot is produced from its destruction, it is not called infinite. But since the soul never perishes, that bliss is imperishable and infinite.
Unparalleled, meaning devoid of any comparison, bliss. Even if you gather together all the worldly bliss of all living beings in the past, present, and future, that bliss is still an infinitesimal part of the bliss of a perfected being. There is no obstruction of any kind in their bliss. It is free from the pain of body and mind, so it is unobstructed. The bliss of a perfected being, which arises naturally, is the bliss that arises only from the nature of the soul.
Thus, liberated souls, who are endowed with perfect knowledge and perfect vision, are the possessors of infinite, unparalleled, unobstructed, and natural bliss. By saying this, the author has refuted the views of many philosophers who say that "liberated souls are devoid of bliss and other qualities, and are devoid of knowledge and vision."
The Vaisheshika philosophers say that "the complete destruction of the nine special qualities of the soul, such as intellect, is liberation," or those who consider liberation to be merely the absence of existence, like the extinction of a lamp, their views have also been refuted! It is not appropriate to desire liberation as the destruction of qualities, or as the destruction of the soul. What wise and intelligent person would desire liberation as the destruction of their qualities, or as the destruction of the soul? Therefore, liberation, which is proven by all evidence, and which is of the nature of infinite knowledge, vision, bliss, and energy, is the only appropriate path.
**61**
Thus, the Eleventh Light of the Yoga Shastra, a bound manuscript named Adhyatma Upanishad, composed by Acharya Shri Hemchandrasuri, is complete, along with its detailed explanation, in response to the curiosity of King Kumarapala.