Mysteries of Life and Eternal Bliss

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

Page 57

34
faculties; ofcourse limits to its unlimited capacities are put on only by the presence of material or Pudgala body. Otherwise, except for this, it is always Supreme and allblissful.
All kinds of illusions as well as feelings are also the cause of the material presence of Pudgala which does not make it possible for any embodied being to acquire the full absolute knowledge, powers of perception, happiness and bliss.
. Delusion is created by the presence of Pudgala which obscures the qualities of omniscienice, omnipotence, absolute knowledge etc. of the-Soul which would have fully exhibited in its pure state.
Atman is always all knowing and pure consciousness, Its pure qualities never leave it nor they get reduced in any way even while it is bound and polluted by the presence or attachment of the Pudgala and because of which its pure and absolute supreme qualities and capacities are limited or obscured, dulled, marred, deluded, purverted,