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Means of Self-Realization discussing the importance of these six tenets, he says that the enlightened have declared the six tenets to be the abode of right faith: These are already discussed elsewhere in detail and may be explained here in short to enable the aspirant to know why they are called the abode of right faith.25
The first tenet namely, there is soul, is very important, the same being the very foundation of selfrealization, which becomes very easy for an aspirant whose right faith is very strong, such a person believes that soul is a substance like any material thing like a pot or a cloth. Though it is invisible, its existence is felt every moment, as it is soul that knows and feels, knows itself and others. Its qualities or characteristics are that it is itself knowledge and has cognition. Second tenet is, ' soul is permanent and indestructible ?, which in other words means it is never made or born and never gets destroyed and extinguished. The material things have limited life or existence, unlike soul.
Third tenet is, ‘soul is the author or creator of its acts, auspicious or otherwise’. Srimad says that all substances are capable of acting and similarly soul is also capable of acting and hence is author of its actions. If it uses its capacity to act for spiritual benefit and 10
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