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( 57 ) 68. Mundane souls would be wrongly said to contain materiality of the idea that colour, etc, wrere believed to be. inseparably connected with the soul.
69. Thus would those of perverse intellect helicve, and from this mode of speech, material would become soul, and matter, on attaining Liberation, would be held to be soul.
70. One to five-sensed creatures (gross and developable). with their opposites (fine and undevelopables) are natures of body.making Karmas.
71. The Acharya points out that these various classes of souls are formed by their own respective material modifica. tions. These being influenced by their auxiliary causes and as. such can never be called souls in reality the soul being beyond all modification and form.
72. In the Scripture, from that Scriptural point of view. given form the guidance of aspirants the souls are said to be fine and gross, developableand undevelopable. This, it is clearly pointed out by the Acharya, is because the soul's name is predicated of the body, from the practical view.point..
73. Spiritual stages can never be said to be souls, they · being merely due to the operation of deluding Karmas. The
Acharya may well ask "How can they be souls' p's When they are entirely devoid of that which distoinguishes the soul from all other substances :-Pure Consciousness.
CHAPTER III COMMENTARY.
74. The Non-Knower of the great difference between Pure Soul and thought-inslow, Karma etc. works in accord with these hinderances to the Soul. By indulging in anger etc, he proves he is a Non Knower.
