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realization of the Eternal Blessedness or Absolute Consciousness. The aspirant of the liberation or Moksha has to elevate himself into and evolve along the scale of realization by following ethical and religious laws and dictates laid down by the Jain system.
The highest or Supreme soul is an end in itself, an absolutely Eternal Blessedness; the internal soul is the means to this end and the external soul is to be repelled and subdued for it is loaded with material and sensual feelings and is the cause of pushing one towards darkness. and sensual lures which are the impediments in the way of self realization.
The tripartite division of the soul has got to some degree, affinities with and similarities to that of plato's, though there are some differences.
In this way, according to Pujyapad if one has full perspective and apprehension of this tripartite nature of the soul, one realizes that the material body is not soul at all of which there are deeper stamps and impressions of misconceptions and distorted understandings upon our minds. The illusions and hallucinations in the world are the cause at the root of these misconceptions.
