Book Title: Mysteries of Life and Eternal Bliss
Author(s): Anantprasad Jain
Publisher: Tirthakar Mahavir Smruti Kendra Samiti Lakhnou UP
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This contemplation, conception and concentration will surely lead the aspirant to the Final Goal, and open the Soul to its own Self.
This very phenomenon, when it happens, is the Final Goal and Liberation. Liberation, in its truest sense, means complete dissociation of Soul from matter. It, then, gains its own nature and qualities. When the Soul is not dependent, for its manifestation, upon the material body, it is, then, pure consciousness, absolute knowledge and highest Bliss itself.
Once this liberation is attained the Soul can never be contaminated with matter again; it will always remain pure with all its purest and highest attributes, and Bliss.
Liberation is the very nature of the Soul. Contamination with matter is due only to the Eternal association with matter. Worry pain, suffering, anxiety etc. are the results of its company with the material body as placed or born in the world. Once liberation is attained it gains Eternal Bliss,
Consciousness, in every being, is the
