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I am the Soul
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actuality but illusion. It can never quench the thirst. In the same way, if the form available to the atma due to affected disposition is mistaken for the true form of the self, it cannot lead to the attainment of spiritual bliss.
Srimadji says that merely achieving the true form of the atma that has been told here, is itself the path to moksa. Nothing else remains to be done. The atma acquires a firm realisation that I am the eternally existent, indestructible, everlasting substance of atma. My true form is chaitanya. The characteristic of infinite knowledge is my pure natural disposition. And free from all illusions, I am just the atma! Atma alone. If this realisation occurs to the jiva, then it is on the path to moksa.
The reason why the path to moksa was not found is that until now the jiva believed all the material feelings to be its own, and never attempted to extricate itself from them. As a result the jiva merely travelled on the path of this material world and could never rise above it to make an effort to be able to reach the supreme travel.
The resultant activity of the atma while making this tremendous effort is the jiva's moksa bhava. And the purushartha in this bhava is the path to moksa.
The purushartha bhavas which a jiva can suitably include in its activity on the path to moksa are mentioned later.
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