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and self-existent then there is no any need of meditation, penance, abstinance for Moksha.
But according to the Acharya both these above views are not justifiable and so unacceptable. In his view, Moksha is not naturally and easily achieved; a strenous, and rigorous penance, study of Yog are the essential steps to Moksha. Therefore, the Yogi or ascetic is never tired and distressed of the rigorous penance for attaining the Nirvana.
Can there be the soul after death?
स्वप्ने दृष्टे विनष्टेऽपि न नाशोऽस्ति यथात्मनः । तथा जागरदृष्टेऽपि विपर्यासा विशेषतः ।।१०१।
The man of ignorance is under such an impression that the soul gets destroyed alongwith the body and comes into existence with the body in this world; and all these impressions are an outcome of his unknown impotence: and his mental make-up is the same as the process in the dreams that the bodies are
