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MOKSHA MARG PRAKASHAK
All souls in the world are found making effort for avoiding miseries and evolving happiness. Whatever other efforts are made by them, are for this purpose only, there is no other purpose. Whatever causes misery is being avoided and whatever is supposed to cause happiness is being persued.
Further, the states of contraction - expansion, etc. are, too, caused to the soul only and the association of many other substances is also found but no effort is made for those things which are not perceived to be causing pleasure or pain. Here one should know the nature of the soul to be such only. One can forbear all sorts of conditions but cannot forbear the state of misery. What can one do if misery is caused due to helplessness (subserviency), one has to bear it; but left to oneself, one does not want to undergo even the slightest misery. Further, whatever be the states of contraction - expansion, etc., one bears it in the natural course, because no logic is applicable in the state of nature. Such should be known to be nature of the soul.
One should know that when one suffers from misery, he wants to sleep; in the state of sleeping, one's active knowledge, etc. become feeble, but even by becoming like an inanimate object, he wishes to eliminate misery. And even he wishes to die. Although in death one believes his absolute destruction, yet one wishes to eliminate misery even by finishing one's existence. Therefore, one's sole purpose is only to end the state of misery.
Further, absence of misery only is happiness, because misery consists in perturbedness and its absence itself is happiness consisting in unperturbedness. This too is clearly perceived. Whatever association of external things may be found, one who is not internally perturbed, is happy. Further, perturbedness is caused due to rise of attachment, etc., passions because due to feelings of attachment, etc., one wishes to modify other substances differently and those substances modify differently. This causes perturbedness. Therefore, for mitigation of perturbedness, either one's attachment, etc. (passions) be uprooted or other substances should modify according to one's desire; but all other substances are not subservient to him. Sometimes some substance may be found modifying as per one's
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