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What is Dharma? Answer. The common meaning of the Dharma is religion. But in reality the meaning of Dharma is "the characteristics of a substance are called its Dharma".
What are the characteristics of a Soul? Answer. The Soul can be recognised by its unique characteristics of knowing and seeing which no other substances have.
How to recognise the Soul? How to experience it? Everyone experiences one's feelings, knowledge, etc. Still one does not believe oneself as the Soul but experiences the self as body since infinite time which is called illusionary belief (mithyatva). If you are the body than after your death the body is still there with working eyes but the body is not able to see the things whereas if that eyes are taken out from that body and transplanted in any blind person, that blind person would be able to see; which proves that the Soul who was knowing and seeing had departed from that body but in case of blind person the Soul is present. This is the way to recognise the Soul. Then contemplate and meditate oneness with the Soul, instead of body, who has power to know and see due to which the experience of the Self will follow which is called self realisation (Samyagdarshana).
