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possible to count or describe all the wonderful properties of the Soul-substance! The Siddhas (Gods) enjoy Omniscience, Immortality and unthinkable, unsurpassed Bliss; They see and hear all, as if They were present everywhere! They have no loves and hatreds left in Them, and do not grant boons to friends or show disfavour to foes. Their divine Example, Their Teachings and Their Footprints are left for those who, disgusted with the world, seek a way out of this Cannibal's (Death's) Cave! Those who walk in Their Footsteps become in all respects like Them as regards the innate Divinity of the Spirit substance, and speedily reach the Holy Siddha Silā, to sit by Them!
The first WORLD TEACHER of the current half-cycle of time, too, is now living in the Siddha Silā, at the Top of the Universe, endowed with Immortality, Perpetual Youth, Full All-embracing Knowledge, and Supreme Bliss! He will never come back, or fall into transmigration again!
Some fresh arrivals in the field of religious metaphysics think that the state of nirvāna is but a temporary one, and that the soul will have again to fall back into transmigration, sooner or later. But the truth is the other way. There is absolutely no cause left for a fall in that case:
