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About the nature of the soul it must be borne in mind very clearly that the soul is of two distinct categories: Perfect and Imperfect. The matter-clad mundane self is Imperfect. The Disembodied Soul alone is Perfect. From the view-point of the wanderring souls in the universe the soul is Imperfect, but from the stand-point of the liberated soul the Atma is Pure and Perfect.
Acharya Shubha Chandra in his Gyanarnava elucidates the nature of pure self for the purpose of concentration and reflection.
श्रहं न नारको नाम न तिर्यक् नापि मानुषः ।
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किनु प्रोन्मूलयाम्यद्य प्रतिपक्ष - विषद्रुमम् । (From realistic point of view) I am neither a hellish being, nor a sub-human being. I am not a man (although I put on the physical body of a human being). I am also not a celestial being. Verily, (by nature) I am Siddha-atma-a liberated and perfect Being. All this multiplicity of forms is the display of the power of karmas.
I am endowed with infinite vigour, infinite wisdom, infinite perception and infinite bliss. Therefore, why should I not uproot the pernicious and poisonous tree (of karmas) ?
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तथा तथा न रोचन्ते विषयाः सुलभा अपि ||३८|| As greater and greater progress is made in the glimpse of Transcendental Self, so is lessened more
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