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karma is itself ignorance, namely, the identification of soul with body or our body-consciousness. If we can give up this ignorance or body-consciousness, then the soul is neither the doer nor the sufferer of karma and that is the secret of religion or spirituality. And this may also be called the secret of the path of liberation. He further says that all the enlightened souls are unanimous on this point. Finally he has given the essence of his philosophy by pointing out that as soon as an aspirant realizes his nature, he realizes that the soul is nothing but pure consciousness, eternal and beyond and independent of body (dehātīta). On soul becoming freed from perverse or unnatural state and becoming stable in its nature, the soul remains neither the doer nor the sufferer of karmas and remains pure while doing any act or action, as they are done in such manner that it does not gather any karma-particles or karma-bandha. This view coincides with that of the Bhavadgitā :
Yogayukto visuddhātmā vijitāmā jitendriya) / Sarvabhūtātmabhūtātmā kurvannapi na lipyate || (V.7)
Thus it will be seen that śrīmad's Ātma-siddhi is a complete philosophy and full-fledged path for achieving self-realization.
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