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the soul is not the affective but a passive seer of these activities, it never becomes divisible with these activities; it remains only passive on looker of them; so it is not subdued by passional force, is in a continuous. mental equilibrium, and is passive, tolerating and restrained. The ignorant has been made victim by the contrary tendencies to the enlightened and is often in depression, miseries and dispaire.
Mental inclination of the Ignorant
शरीर कंचुकेनात्मा संवृतज्ञानविग्रहः । नात्मानं बुध्यते तस्मात् भ्रमत्यतिचिरं भवे ।। ६८ ।।
The knowledge and congnizance of soul is the cause of Moksha; and misunderstanding and wrong conception of soul lead to ensnarement in worldly life.
The body and the soul are linked together since time immemorial. The soul dwells in the body and body is the cloth upon it, so the ignorant is deceived and thinks the body to be
