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purpose to know all, is to know one's soul or reality. To know the soul is not difficult nor it is easy, though one is soul itself. Soul, like other things is not perceptible, but it can be very well experienced by every one. Knowledge or cognition is its property. Its other qualities are caitanya and pure conscious attention (upayoga). 10 It is the soul and not the human body or the senses, which knows or sees material things like a pot or a piece of cloth. Our life consists of the duo - soul and body, the body is perceptible or material and the soul, imperceptible or spiritual. The soul has no properties like taste (rasa), shape (rūpa) smell and touch, but it has the property or inherent quality to know and see material things and to know its own nature. It can comprehend every body and everything and can experience and express all feelings. It has the quality of conscious attention (upayoga) by which it can comprehend, feel and know things. By nature, soul is spotless or faultless, pure and conscious. If everything including his thoughts, is separated from an individual, what remains is pure soul. When the soul is not in its nature and is influenced by things, thoughts, or feelings regarding things, other than itself. it is the author of such actions which may be either auspicious or inauspicious and which bear fruits and therefore the
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