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evident from the fact that a dead body, though it has all the senses intact, does not have any feeling or sensation. It may be noted here that each sense organ has the capacity to cognize its respective objects (svavisaya) and thus, of the sense organs, eye alone can have the visual cognition, ear alone can hear, but the soul is capable of cognizing all such experiences and that too at one and the same time. It is therefore to be remembered that there is soul and also that the soul and body are different. Basically, soul is pure, but due to its own auspicious or inauspicious emotions and impulses or passions (rāga and dveşa), the soul gathers karmabandha. If the emotions or passions or impulses are auspicious, influx of karma particles will render worldly or even celestial happiness and if its emotions etc., are inauspicious, the fruit is unhappiness or misery. But if there is no such activity or emotions etc. and it remains in its own nature of pure cognition, it is in a state of bliss: 13 In other words, if the soul is free from passions, emotions, desires, feelings, sensations etc., it can be said to be in a liberated state for a short or long duration of time as the case may be. Now let us see what is dharma or religion according to Srimad as we have already tried to know what is ārma.
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