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( 55 ) 49. The knower maintaias that all these conditions are prodacts of material Karmas, and can never be termed Souls.
50. Pain is the resulting fruit of the eight kinds of Karmas, and is in no wise to be regarded as the soul. Merit and demerit are binding.
51. Regarded from the practical view.point, these thought activities have been described as souls,
52. In like manner it may be said that the King has gone out, when in reality only his army has gone forth.
53. Thus from the scriptural stand-point that non-soul thought-activity and attachments are called soul, it is quite evident from the Real aspect that the soul is eternally itself.
54. Consciousness, which is only attributable to the soul, is above all external sign, quality, or shape.
55. The soul is devoid of all materiality, having neither sense or form.
56. The soul is beyond attachment, hatred or delusion. Neither can the causes of bondage, wrong belief ever be associated with it, in its Parity.
57. The soul is simple and therefore beyond the atom and the molecule. No degree of attachment, or impure thought activity, or any fruition thereof, can be predicated of the soul.
58. The soul, being withoot form can never be a recep. tacle for the tiratory.activity, which is the cause of Karmic inflow, Karmic operation can not be contained therein, neither a place for soul-seeking.
-59. In the Soul can never be a duration in time of bondagethe soul being eternal.
