Mysteries of Life and Eternal Bliss

Author(s): Anantprasad Jain
Publisher: Tirthakar Mahavir Smruti Kendra Samiti Lakhnou UP

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As the ore has to undergo various transformations of physical and chemical nature, prior to complete purity of the refined matal. In the same way the Soul, with its eternal impurity of Pudgala or of material contamination, gains absolute purity through the help of this world and its various births, deaths, rebirths and gradual development from one stage to the other, each time leaving off some impurities, absorbing or assimilating others during the process of change, transformation and development as a means and help to remove further impurities, and finally, it becomes Pure Soul in its essence.
Just as the refining of any metal ore is only possible through a right knowledge of the metal,the ore, its processes, its action and reactions with other chemicals and substances and heating etc, used with the ore during the various processes and stages of its refinement. So it is with the Soul in the body of man-or man, to become pure soul-Param Atma. A right knowledge, of the phenomena and process of refining from matter infested Soul (ie. a worldly being with material body) to the matterless pure Soul-the Highest Self, is the first essential,