Mysteries of Life and Eternal Bliss

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

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perception or knowledge is right, true, pure or otherwise wrong, hazy, perverted, obscured, partial, topsyturvy etc, etc. All defects in its pure perception is due to Pudgala. But even the defective perception would not have been possible without the presence of Atman.
Atman is consciousness and consciousness is Atman; or Atman is knowledge and knowledge is Atman. The presence and existence of Atman is only proved or manifested through consciousness or knowledge or conception or feeling.
The existence of Atman is proved or grasped or conceived through its conscious manifestations in all living beings. Atman can not be seen, felt or perceived by senses. Atman can only be seen, perceived or felt by Atman itself. For all worldly beings, Mind is only a help to achieve this stage or this state through constant endeavour by means of deep meditation and silent concentration of mind itself centered in the attributes of the pure Soul inside one's own self.
Mental concentration is
real Yoga