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is the subject of senses, as we can touch, taste, smell, hear or understand, with our five different senses. Hence it is generally believed that as we acquire knowledge through our mind and thinking which are parts of our senses and which in turn, related to our body. When there is no body, there will be no acquisition of knowledge - it is based on senses. Now it is advised to people with such thinking. that at the time of death all the five senses are visible in a dead body but the body itself becomes empty of knowledge. No knowledge exists in the dead body. therefore we must believe that Gyan - knowledge is the religion of soul and not of body. Body is burnt at the time of death but soul, with knowledge and energy can not be burnt. The concomitant characteristics of knowledge with perception, such as infinite energy also remain with the liberated soul. It should be noted that without infinite energy there can be no Infinite Knowledge, Infinite Faith and Infinite Perfectness.
Now this is a different issue, that in mundane existence, the soul perceives very little knowledge and that too, with the help of physical senses, we see that a man with poor eye-vision is advised by the doctor to put a spectacle to regularise his vision. And if the problem of poor vision or lack of perfect vision is removed, the man removes the spectacle. In the same way, spiritual knowledge needs the assistance of senses for its expression while having mundane existence. Contrary to it, liberated souls do not need any kind of sense - assistance. It becomes a natural infinite power of the liberated soul.
Thus the description of Moksha, which is attained only by those Ascetics, who completaly observe self restraint as directed in scriptures. But because a worldly man does not succeed in observing the principle of self restraint and other vows in absoluteness, he becomes entitled only of heaven or paradise. Now how this paradise is attained, is explained in following verse :
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अतिशयित-भुवन-मद्भुतमभ्युदयं फलति सद्धर्मः ॥१३५॥ Explanation :
The verse describes the effects of adopting the vows, sallekhana and others, from the point of view of material prosperity, and shows that those who practise self control, in the true sense of the word, rise to the most enviable positions in the world and become heir to unexcelled good fortune.
