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SPIRITUAL LIGHT.
true and permenant happiness lies hidden in the inner-self and searching inquiry for it, is outside. The divine condition, full of infinite bliss, infinite powers, infinite perception and infinite knowledge, in all Souls exists from eternity, so Jiva is said to be potentially divine and constitutionally free even when it is incarcerated in the bonds of Karma. This phenomenal soul is Parmatman who, being under the veil of Karmas assumes a variety of forms in this world. It being ignorant of its true and real nature wanders here and there in the bewildered mental state, in the pursuit of true happiness of the Perfect Status, his bewilderingly misguided faith in what is nonself leads him astray from the right path. Being under the overwhelming influence of false--hood (Mithyatva) and also the veil of Karmas, being not dropped, his vision being muddy, he does not clearly see what lies hidden within his innerself and so makes ineffectual exertions to get it from outside. In the same way the deer tries to find out musk from outside though it is in its own naval.
So it is well described in the following lines;
"If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies; And they are fools who roam; The world has nothing to bestow. "
Cf-Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.-Shakespeare. 125
