Pure Soul and Its Infinite Treasure

SR No.: 007661
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

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of other substances, kingdoms, honours and so on, but all these are transient and never support the soul in all times and have eventually brought misery. How can these be called achievements? Success in any activity is a relative term and does not show / display supremeness in all times. Even pious deeds do not make a person supreme and valid for all times and for all people/lives. Hence a soul does not transform itself to such mutations. It retains its own mutations.
If someone asserts that he knows the soul but does not experience the bliss or does not recognise the all-knowing character or has doubts about one's objective of life or next life or seeks sensuous pleasures, then he has not understood the nature of elemental transformation of the soul. One has to completely identify with the infinite properties of the soul and experience them. It is immaterial whether experience is small or big, lasting for a moment or little longer, knows all the infinite properties or a few of them, and so on. What is important is that one does not identify with the properties of other substances and there is complete absence of transmutability. It is not conceivable that someone identifies with the elemental nature of the soul but does not experience it. One tastes sugar and does not experience sweetness, one has eyes but not able to see, has ears but does not hear, then there is something fundamentally wrong. The soul of the Omniscient and our own soul are not different in terms of the fundamental nature and are equal and hence any attempt to realise the all-knowing nature of the soul is bound to be fruitful and eventually lead to the ultimate achievement of Moksha, if the right efforts are made. There cannot be any doubt about this. It is altogether different if a person does not see the importance of scriptures and gets involved in complexities of words and expressions. When a mother shows the child the moon by pointing her fingers