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52 · A Reservoir of Infinite Power
5. Infinite Happiness (Sukh) - The pure soul is replete with bliss and ecstasy. However, an ignorant person looks for happiness in external objects or sensuous pleasures such as those relating to body, sex, bungalows, status, wealth, etc., which produce anxieties, enslavery, unhappiness and untold misery.
It is an ocean of infinite happiness and unfathomable bliss. For example, the best among humans in terms of availability of wealth and sensuous happiness, are Chakravarty Kings and the best in heavens are Indras, the King of heavens. Imagine the worldly happiness enjoyed by infinite number of such Kings and Indras. The divine happiness experienced by Siddhas in the smallest unit of time, (say trillionth of a second), is infinitely greater than the worldly happiness enjoyed by all the Kings and Indras and other happy beings of the universe who lived in infinite past, living today and will live in infinite future - all put together on oneside.
This property of infinite happiness encompasses in itself two other properties, viz., absolute faith and complete self-absorption. These two are the basic characteristics and are at the heart of the concept of the pure soul. Absolute faith provides the seed and the fruits of infinite happiness are reaped in the process of nourishment through selfabsorption. Absolute faith leads a person to acquire greater knowledge of the pure self and as a person gets absorbed in the self in stages, infinite happiness is also realised in those corresponding stages. Greater the extent of self-absorption, greater is the extent of infinite happiness experienced. The purification of self entails a definite process and sequence in different stages of absorption. Although absolute faith, complete self-absorption and bliss manifest simultaneously
| 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 |