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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
senses or any kind of physical existence. There soul alone, pure and simple, exists and so there is no possibility of any kind of mental operation or desires.
It is likely that one would doubt and argue, "How soul alone can exist or stay without senses and the physical frame ?” To this we reply, "Soul is an independent entity which can exist independently by itself like other entities, in the space."
"Where exactly is the space in which the soul would stay?"
“The natural tendency of the soul is upwards. When devoid of all actional bondages, it moves straight upwards, and rests at the highest centre of space. We can take an example of a hollowed gourd wrapped with cloth and further besmeared with earth. Suppose it has over it many such layers of cloth and earth. Now when placed in a pond of water it would certainly sink, but with layers of earth dissolved and cloth torn, it would slowly rise up, with its natural buoyancy, till finally it floats on the surface of the water-bed. Similarly soul also with its intrinsic nature of rising upwards, being devoid of all Karmas straightaway reaches the highest pinnacle of the space of the universe.
Let us also know, why it does not go beyond this point? The clarification is that non-space-region commences, beyond this highest point. This region does not contain entities like Dharmathaya and Adharmastthaya which help the movement and location of a body respectively. Therefore, the soul cannot enter this region.
Pure soul without the bondage of Karmas is known as Lord, the accomplished or God, the accomplished. Such infinite number of accomplished Lords have flourished till today. All of them have become stationary there at the highest pinnacle of the universe. That location is known as Siddhasheela.
You daily recite this couplet when you worship the Lord, “The Siddhasheela is situated at the terminating point of the universe. It is possessed of extraordinary brilliance and fairness of an emerald. The Lords liberated stay there having touched the terminating point of the universe. The head-crest of the Lord reminds us of Siddhasheela and therefore it is very sacred. I therefore, worship the head-crest of the Lord."
