Book Title: Mysteries of Life and Eternal Bliss
Author(s): Anantprasad Jain
Publisher: Tirthakar Mahavir Smruti Kendra Samiti Lakhnou UP
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nature of the Soul. In all beings the Soul is always pure and perfect consciousness.
Like electrical instruments the bodies of various beings differ widely in shape, size, design, construction and therefore function, accordingly, in different ways, having different capacities, nature, qualities etc. Yet all the time the vital energy-the electricityflowing through them all, is the same. Likewise the life giving conscious Soul is operating in all these bodies of all beings. While the electrical energy is present in the various instruments or appliances they work; as soon as, the energy is stopped they also stop functioning. Similarly when the Soul is within this body it works, and as soon as the Soul leaves it, it stops functioning.
However, this world, with its limitless paraphernalia and everything in it, is a vast workshop, like a big industrial establishment. or contrivance, for enabling the Soul to get rid of the impurity-the matter (i. e. non-Soul) likened to raw ore of a metal, through transmigrations, births and deaths, similar to the various processes during the refining of the ore, and to attain the full purity of the metal finally.
