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I am the Soul
675 Thus all the three substances are beneficial to the universe through their qualities. But they are not endowed with an ability to sense within themselves, while atma gets separated from all these with its quality of sensitivity. The most special power that is there in the atma is this nature of sensing. That is because of the chaitanya. Where there is chaitanya, there is sanvedana - sensitivity. All the jada substances, which do not have chetana, also do not have sanvedana. That is why, atma with its chetana quality, reigns supreme over all other substances.
Further, pure chetana can also be understood as the established infinite knowledge in the infinite spaces of the atma. Where there is chetana, there is knowledge. They are inseparable. They are a single entity, not dual. The unity of knowledge and chetana is itself atma. In the infinite spaces of the atma, there is not even a single space where there is no knowledge. Even in the spaces of atma lying in a nigoda from infinite time, knowledge exists, although under cover. When in the nigoda or in the minute uni-sensory being, the jiva tends to appear like inanimate, yet it is not. The main cause for this is that its quality of knowledge is not yet disappeared.
There is such an unimaginable power in the atma, that it can manifest the entire knowledge which is there within and at the same time it can sense it. The poudaglika knowledge generated out of senses may not be utilised or sensed at one time but the atma's infinite knowledge is used at once. The Kevali Parmatma manages to see and know at once, all the dravyaguna-paryayas in the universe. He even experiences the infinite gunas lying within his self. Such is the wonderful and marvellous true form of the pure chetana. The disciple experienced this. As his experience grows, he says that he has now known the ajara, amara, avinashi form of atma.
Ajara - (ageless) is that which does not jara - or grow old. That is to say, old age is the natural course of the body. When
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