Mysteries of Life and Eternal Bliss

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

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purest form is not possible except always in association with Pudgala body or so. Atma or Soul is always in association with the Pudgala body until final liberation (Moksha) is attained.
It has already been said that the Pudgala has formed a body coinciding with the space occupied by the Soul in such a way that the vibrations of the impure Soul and the vibrations of the Pudgala have so acted and interacted upon each other that they have become rather one for all worldly purposes and it is obvious from the Pratical Point of veiw. This has been termed Bondage or encasement of Soul in a body. This body leads the Soul with it wherever it goes or is carried. The Soul is always with this body or conversely this body is always with the Soul. Whatever happens to this body in its wandering and carriage the Soul, being the conscious counterpart, experiences pleasure and pain etc. and conceives ideas of various kinds as an outcome of this close attachment or one being coincident with the other, and inseparable till the final sepration or redemption. Conscionsness is of the Soul while the outer form and body etc. belong to