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Pure Soul and its Infinite Treasure * 99
in the state of omniscience. However, a person, who realises the soul, will understand these properties. Just as one tablet of medicine may contain many chemicals or herbs or medicines but the taste of the tablet is composite. Similarly, in self-realisation, taste of infinite properties is experienced in unison. The objective of the statement on infinite properties is not to prove/explain each of the properties but to focus our attention on this unity in infinity and to understand and realise the soul as indivisible whole and not in parts or separate properties.
One who has understood the infinite nature of the soul will not take shelter in one particular property or a group of properties and will not focus on individual or divided properties of the soul. A person who imbibes this nature of unity in infinity, will always meditate on the soul as an indivisible entity and such meditation will lead to self-realisation and generation of purer forms of the soul. When the indivisible view of the soul operates, all individual properties also transform themselves into purer forms. One who does not believe in this infinite nature, remains ignorant and untransformed. Imagine one's treasure of gold, jewels, etc. is buried underneath the house or some parents have kept huge money for someone in the Swiss Bank, but if the person does not know about it, such wealth is of no use to that individual. Once he comes to know of this wealth, he is filled with the desire for wealth or acts as a wealthy person. Similarly, once a person realises the infinite treasure latent in the self, he is filled with the waves of these powerful properties and eventually realises, taps and manifests this infinite power.
The soul is not the only substance, which has infinite properties. Substances like space, matter, medium of
| SR No. | 007661 |
| Book Title | Pure Soul and Its Infinite Treasure |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Jayantilal Jain |
| Publisher | University of Madras |
| Publication Year | 2010 |
| Total Pages | 283 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 6 MB |