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Awakening of Self Realisation :
By the analysis of animate and inanimate elements it becomes explicit that though this 'l' is dwelling in this body, yet it is unaffected of it and is superior to it, because if this 'l' does not retain the body is lifeless. Hence, the fulcrum of the body's support is 'l'. It is soul. With this point of view, soul is the driver of this body-engine.
The secret of awakening the self-realisation, lies in comprehending the position whether an Engine should motivate the driver or the drive should motivate the engine. Whether the soul should command the body or it should yieId to body's mandate. The struggle of this command is due to the fact that the soul and matter even having united do not leave their individual nature. The soul's nature is knowledge and Potency (strength), its existence is devoid of decay or death, (immortal) while. matter lacks knowledge, is lifeless (inanimate) and is also perishable. In this way both possess oposite nature, due to which one drags the other in its own direction. Again there is an intense quarrel of discipline with the soul. When the faculty of soul's knowledge is dorment energisation does not activate as a result of which its self realisation also remains languid. In that case the steering of the engine gets out of its (soul's) control. That state may be typified by saying that conscious (soul) has yielded to the mandates of unconscious (matter): soul's control be then acknowledged when the steering of the Engine lies in driver's hands and retained there. Listen to the voice of the soul :
The soul of any living being is never totally devoid of understanding and sensitivity. There can be difference
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