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pain and unhappiness so it is to be abandoned and pushed off with a great force and austere penance. The paramatma being the root of uitimate happiness and bliss is to be won and the Antaratma being an agency between these lowest and highest stages of soul is a sole and assured means and an accomplishing medium.
Ultimately Acharya concluded that no other means apart from this so neat and accurate and accomplishing our goal is available, so one should achieve it. Even the realized and enlightened Bhagwan cannot be of any avail, cannot be a boat to take us from one bank to the other. The accomplished and having experienced the ultimate reality face to face have, too, trodden upon and passed by the same patn.
Nature of the tripartite soulबहिरात्मा शरीरादो जातात्मभ्रांतिरान्तरः चित्तदोषात्मविभ्रांति: परमात्मातिनिर्मल: । ५ ।।
Bahlratma, Antaratma and Paramatma are the three states of the soul. Karana Paramatma is the
