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identified with that of the self. (3) Control is exercised over body, when it is to be exercised over the self. It is the introvert nature of self that leads to ultimate liberation, while the wrong impression is created that giving up other objects ensures liberation. (4) Changes in body (movements of body parts, disease, hunger, thirst, birth, death, sleep, etc.) are identified as caused by the self. While changes in body are caused by the nature of body itself, one gets the wrong impression that these are caused by the self and vice versa. (5) Changes in body are considered as causing pleasures or pains to the self.
The above is only an illustrative example but all the five features apply simultaneously to all of our worldly feelings/actions. Only when a person understands the causal factors, one can acquire true knowledge about self and divert attention from associate cause to real cause and achieve self-realisation. The key to self-realisation lies in accepting the fact that every object is changing due to its own nature and there is nothing that a man has to do in other objects. His domain lies in his self.
